On Sat, 2023-07-01 at 11:32 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > Does this mean that these drivers are replaced and accessed on the fly > but the associated kernel modules do not become active until after a reboot?
That's generally the case. Various library updates can only be used after ones in memory are purged, and a reboot can be the only way to achieve that. For certain module updates, they're not even a binary install. They're compiled on your computer. For thinks like akmods, that was somewhere in the boot-up process. I think some things, now, compile somewhere in the shutdown process before a reboot. Either way, there's a delay you need to wait for, and interrupting it causes some chaos. Made all the more harder by there being little indication on-screen what's going on, and some people will hard reset in the middle of things thinking the computer has crashed. > If that is the case, and that mismatch is causing the browser html 5 > game to think hardware acceleration is not available, how does anything > that requires hardware acceleration to function properly ever work after > an update? That is a problem that just about requires a reboot. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.92.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 20 11:48:01 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
