nvidia driver and new kernels

David Utidjian utidjian at remarque.org
Wed Dec 3 16:32:43 UTC 2003


Matt Wette wrote:
> As other people have noticed, the nvidia driver needs to be
> reinstalled with a new kernel.  There is another problem.  If
> you use the NVIDIA* script to build/install the driver for the 
> new kernel, the nvidia driver
>   /lib/modules/<oldkern>/kernel/driver/video/nvidia.o
> gets removed.

Not sure if that is a real "problem", per se. The Nvidia installer does
the same thing in Red Hat 9 (and any other distro AFAIK).

Example: After updating to latest RH9 kernel:

[root at tuttle:root]# locate nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-24.9/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o
[root at tuttle:root]#

OK... now installed new kernel on FC1 and re-ran the Nvidia installer, I 
get:

[utidjian at plug utidjian]$ find /lib -name nvidia.o -print
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/video/nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2129.nptlsmp/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o
[utidjian at plug utidjian]$

-DU-...etc...







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