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On 12/26/2011 03:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4EF8F380.60002@zeff.us" type="cite">On
12/26/2011 01:56 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"> If you got the drivers from the nVidia
website and you are in runlevel
<br>
3 you don't need to do an uninstall to do the update as the
nVidia
<br>
module is not loaded yet. just run "yum update" and it will
update,
<br>
although beware what it updates to as far as your video
driver(s) are
<br>
concerned.
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</blockquote>
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I was under the impression that the drivers from nVidia were a
binary blob that installed a hacked kernel, hacked some of your
system libraries and installed the drivers without going through
yum, rpm or any other package manager, making them
distro-agnostic. Unless my information's badly out of date, you
have to do this again every time there's a kernel update. The
blob's supposed to have an uninstall function, but it doesn't
always (ever?) restore the original versions of the hacked
libraries. This is why I always recommend using the kmod/akmod
version of the drivers instead of the binary blob.
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I don't know if you recalled the problems I was having installing
the 290.10 nvidia drivers. There was a thread started concerning
this problem. The problem was solved with the downloading of the
nvidia drivers 275.43 from nvidia.com at their recommendation. They
had to be loaded under the auspicious of runlevel3 and this was done
with the help Kevin Martin. If you have a fix using akmod/kmod I
will certainly be open to receiving instruction on how to do it.
Thanks for your imput in this matter. <br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Lawrence Graves <lgraves95@gmail.com>
All things are workable but don't all things work.</lgraves95@gmail.com></div>
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