Re: nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

Try download nvidia driver from Nvidia web site, then download the
kernel-dev rpm via yum after that start the installation in level 3.
Nvidia they have driver for linux, and it is working fine with me.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Robin Laing wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:51:56PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
Does that mean it will prevent a kernel from getting installed if
the
matching kmdls are not available?

No, I didn't want a security update to be ladt off if it missed a
kmdl. But if you install a kernel the moment it gets released (and
therefore there are no kmdls yet available) once the kmdls are there
yum-plugin-kmdl will make yum update get them for you.

.. but this is a Bad Thing when it comes to nvdia, because the next
time
you reboot, X won't start for a few days. In fact, most kmdls are
pretty
important for day-to-day operations. Clearly I can see how someone
else
would want it to work the way you designed it, but that SO doesn't
work
for me.

Well, one can change the plugin to behave as you want, but indeed most
users wanted to be asyncronous and not be held back by any third party
in getting their vendor updates.

If you want to experiment: In the loop where it checks whether a kmdl
exists or not just add in the case of a failure for a lookup to unmark
the kernel for installation. Or to add UPDATEDEFAULT=no to
/etc/sysconfig/kernel before installing it.

What you are discussing is exactly what dkms is supposed to correct.

dkms(8) - Linux man page
http://linux.die.net/man/8/dkms

dkms is a framework which allows kernel modules to be dynamically built
for each kernel on your system in a simplified and organized fashion.


Since I moved to dkms, I have not had any issues with nvidia drivers on
any machine. :)

Humm, can you say that for post 2.6.25-rc0 kernels? I don't think so,
Robin.

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