nvidia driver and new kernels

[Matt Wette]

As other people have noticed, the nvidia driver needs to be
reinstalled with a new kernel.  There is another problem.  If
you use the NVIDIA* script to build/install the driver for the 
new kernel, the nvidia driver
  /lib/modules/<oldkern>/kernel/driver/video/nvidia.o
gets removed.

Matt

[nosp]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:22, Matt Wette wrote:
> As other people have noticed, the nvidia driver needs to be
> reinstalled with a new kernel.  There is another problem.  If
> you use the NVIDIA* script to build/install the driver for the 
> new kernel, the nvidia driver
>   /lib/modules/<oldkern>/kernel/driver/video/nvidia.o
> gets removed.

It's a "feature" of the NVIDIA installer: when you run it after
installing the new kernel, the first thing it says is something like "I
found an old version ver XXX of the NVIDIA drivers.  It will be removed
if you continue."

[David Utidjian]

Matt Wette wrote:
> As other people have noticed, the nvidia driver needs to be
> reinstalled with a new kernel.  There is another problem.  If
> you use the NVIDIA* script to build/install the driver for the 
> new kernel, the nvidia driver
>   /lib/modules/<oldkern>/kernel/driver/video/nvidia.o
> gets removed.

Not sure if that is a real "problem", per se. The Nvidia installer does
the same thing in Red Hat 9 (and any other distro AFAIK).

Example: After updating to latest RH9 kernel:

[root@tuttle:root]# locate nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-24.9/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o
[root@tuttle:root]#

OK... now installed new kernel on FC1 and re-ran the Nvidia installer, I 
get:

[utidjian@plug utidjian]$ find /lib -name nvidia.o -print
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/video/nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2129.nptlsmp/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o
[utidjian@plug utidjian]$

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