yum losing it´s flavour?

[H.S.]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 24 September 2006 03:35, Ric Moore wrote:
> 
>>I have an Athlon64 3200 running 32 bit FC5 (yeah, I'm still chicken)
> 
> 
> So am I :-)
> 
> 
>>and 
>>I'm seeing a kernel for i686 being yum updated. My updated nvidea
>>modules was an i586. It no longer works. <grins> Fill me and anyone else
>>as being merely ignorant, would you please? Ric
>>
> 
> I don't use the proprietary drivers, but I did once have them installed, a 
> couple of years ago.  IIRC they have to be compiled against the running 
> kernel, so updating your kernel means re-compiling the nvidia drivers.  I'm 
> sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Anne
> 

I think you are right. I just went through recompiling the nvidia driver 
when I last upgraded my FC5 kernel last week. And I have had to do this 
everytime I upgraded the kernel.

->HS