Graphic boot

TANGUY Eric eric.tanguy at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 05:42:00 UTC 2012


Le 25/02/2012 14:15, Kevin Martin a écrit :
>
> 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
I'm not sure to understand what's the relation between akmod and initrd 
driver ?
Eric



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