Re: Forgive the rant...but

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

I don't understand why Nvidia doesn't provide this.  We include our own
init script that recompiles the Nvidia driver if it detects the kernel
has changed.

This way, you upgrade your kernel, reboot, nvidia gets recompiled and
you're all set  :)

/Brian/

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:44, Ed Westphal wrote:
> Is it really quite impossible to have a kernel update check for the
> installed video driver and just use that? The problem is, as everyone
> knows all too well is with the NVidia drivers. Each time the kernel gets
> tweaked, have to use some time to recompile the NVidia instead of the
> generic NV. Not that it's such a big deal, but just gets a little old
> and tiring. This time around, thought I'd try to be 'smart' - lack of
> tools and proper equipment between my ears; and run the driver script to
> compile to the new kernel, before rebooting. AAAHHnnT! Tells me I
> already have the driver loaded! True - but to the old kernel, not the
> new one that I wanted it compiled to! So, back to the old dance, shut
> down and reboot without X, run script, modify conf for NVidia and reboot
> back into X. I'm very thankful that I don't have a shop full of NVidias
> to have to do this for! If someone could please advise, is there a
> graphics card out there, higher end, that the kernel will just be happy
> to get along with & use OpenGL - without a little extra tweaking, every
> time there's an update? My apologies - bad migraine day.
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