nvidia or ati ?

micheal sundance at sundanceloki.com
Sun Oct 30 20:25:28 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 22:43 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> ...
> > This should not happen -- the livna package should disable the nvidia
> > driver and switch to nv when the kernel-module for the new kernel is
> > missing. If not file a bug.
> 
> This :-( :-( "feature" made me dump the livna way a long time ago.
> 
> Not only do you have to get the kernel module installed, you
> also have to set up X again to use the nvidia driver.
> 
> Now if only some cleaver rpm dependencies could be set
> up so that the kernel isn't updated until a new livna
> nvidia rpm is available - that would be useful!
> 
> Mogens
> 
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> 

I may be daft, but for my ATI card, whenever I update my kernel from
updates released it defautls to use the radeon driver. I just update the
kernel-module from livna manually.

I don't see why this would not work for nVidia.

Micheal




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