nvidia driver and new kernels
nosp
nosp at xades.com
Wed Dec 3 15:51:21 UTC 2003
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."
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