nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

[Matthew Saltzman]

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).

Generally, it doesn't.  There's a glitch when installing a new kernel
results in installing a new version of the nVidia driver.

> 
> The "solution" is to install the nvidia module manually from the nvidia 
> site download, which is not really a simple option.

...which has its own problems.

Search the archives of this list for how to rebuild new Livna nvidia
packages for the old kernel.

> 
> 
> 
> David Kramer wrote:
> > I simply don't understand why this is the case, but every time I 
> > upgrade the .  After some updates, the symlinks point to the wrong 
> > version, etc.  But I will only address my current situation.  This is 
> > on a Dell D820.
> >
> > Currently running the newly-installed 2.6.24.3-34 kernel.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Thanks for any advice you can offer.
> >
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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