nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

Mike Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Thu Mar 27 03:12:19 UTC 2008


-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re:nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update
From: Peter McNeil <peter at mcneils.net>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: 03/26/2008 10:06 PM
> Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:25 +1100, Peter McNeil wrote:
>>  
>>> For some reason the update to a new kernel seems to randomly point 
>>> to a kernel to boot by default which would be OK but the livna 
>>> nvidia setup breaks the older kernels nvidia module, so you need to 
>>> make sure you boot on the latest kernel by default (by editing 
>>> /etc/grub.conf to point to the latest kernel).
>>>
>>> The "solution" is to install the nvidia module manually from the 
>>> nvidia site download, which is not really a simple option.
>>>     
>>
>> Just my two cents, but it has been the simple answer for me. I update
>> the kernel, re-run the installer and I'm back up and running in minutes,
>> instead of dinking around with yum doing it's thing and then maybe not
>> finding the version to match my kernel at first. Nary a burp in the
>> barrel. Ric
>>   
> yeah once you've done it once it mostly keeps working and is simple. 
> The real trick is to unpack the installer and run ./nvidia-installer 
> -K from that directory to just install a new kernel module for the 
> running kernel.
>

Or you guys could dump Livna and use the package from freshrpms.net, 
which uses DKMS. It automatically rebuilds the module on a kernel change 
- even non-RPM kernel changes if you manually compile a kernel.

Regards,
Mike




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