nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

[Peter McNeil]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:25 +1100, Peter McNeil wrote:
>   
>> For some reason the update to a new kernel seems to randomly point to a 
>> kernel to boot by default which would be OK but the livna nvidia setup 
>> breaks the older kernels nvidia module, so you need to make sure you 
>> boot on the latest kernel by default (by editing /etc/grub.conf to point 
>> to the latest kernel).
>>
>> The "solution" is to install the nvidia module manually from the nvidia 
>> site download, which is not really a simple option.
>>     
>
> Just my two cents, but it has been the simple answer for me. I update
> the kernel, re-run the installer and I'm back up and running in minutes,
> instead of dinking around with yum doing it's thing and then maybe not
> finding the version to match my kernel at first. Nary a burp in the
> barrel. Ric
>   
yeah once you've done it once it mostly keeps working and is simple. The 
real trick is to unpack the installer and run ./nvidia-installer -K from 
that directory to just install a new kernel module for the running kernel.