Re: [SLE] There are some things I won't do

From: Paul Cooke (pc005b5848_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 02/28/04

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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:37:58 +0000

    On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:12 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
    > On Saturday 28 February 2004 10.00, Paul Cooke wrote:
    > > I've got my nvidia 3D set up perfectly... and yet this security fix for
    > > xfree86 will break it...
    > >
    > > I'm sick and tired of the nvidia joke we have to run through in dropping
    > > down to init3 and never knowing if things will work at all when running
    > > sax2 after having run the nvidia installer...
    >
    > a) The xfree update didn't break 3D on my system
    >
    > b) you don't have to go to runlevel 3, all you have to do is close down X
    >
    > c) If you find you do for some reason have to run the nvidia installer (say
    > if you install a new kernel for instance) and if you have 3D working before
    > running the nvidia installer, there is absolutely no need to touch sax
    > afterwards, it will just keep working

    It broke it...

    and the really simple answer for SuSE 9.0 users that completely avoids messing
    about in runlevel 3 is to use YOU to update the nvidia driver... 

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