Graphic boot

[Kevin Martin]

On 02/26/2012 11:42 PM, TANGUY Eric wrote:
> 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
>
Ah, perhaps I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that you weren't able to get a graphical desktop with nVidia after kernel
updates. Are you wanting the actual boot process, prior to a login screen, to use the nVidia driver? If so, why?

Kevin