Graphic boot

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Sat Feb 25 13:15:34 UTC 2012



On 02/25/2012 01:49 AM, TANGUY Eric wrote:
> Le 24/02/2012 19:24, Darryl L. Pierce a écrit :
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 07:09:18PM +0100, TANGUY Eric wrote:
>>> How to have a graphic boot with rpmfusion nvidia driver and now grub2 ?
>> The graphical boot uses the video drivers in the initrd, not the one on
>> the physical file system. You would need to create a new initrd for each
>> kernel upgrade that uses the nVidia drivers.
>>
> Ok thank you but if i remember well with grub you had to do this once and when there was a kernel update all was ok.
> Is there any difference now with grub2 ? What is the command line to make a new initrd using the nvidia drivers ?
> Thanks
> Eric
>
If you are using nVidia you should install akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion repo.  Then every time you update the kernel the nvidia
driver will be rebuilt and you'll get your graphic boot again (unless you are running debug kernels, but that's another story).

Kevin


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