On Tue, 2005-25-10 at 18:33 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
Igor Jagec wrote: ....
I would advice you to get the nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-0.lvn.2.4.src.rpm package and recompile it when the new kernel package is released.
Yes, but this is not done automatically.
So if the machine is rebooted after the new kernel is installed, but before the nvidia driver is recompiled, the machine starts up without graphics.
This has annoyed quite a few people here... :-)
Mogens
When I was using the binary driver, I had a script that I kept in /root/bin to build, install the driver and add it to initrd. If I forgot to update it before I booted a new kernel it was easy to log in as root, run the script and reboot. Unfortunately I am not using that script anymore and am not sure if I still have a copy of it anywhere.
Here is a hint on making it work easily in BASH scripts :
KERNVER = `uname -r`
I am currently using an ATI card in that machine but only so that I can convert some .vcr files to mpeg2 in windows.
Have a good day.