On 12/26/2011 03:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/26/2011 01:56 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
If you got the drivers from the nVidia website and you are in runlevel
3 you don't need to do an uninstall to do the update as the nVidia
module is not loaded yet. just run "yum update" and it will update,
although beware what it updates to as far as your video driver(s) are
concerned.
I was under the impression that the drivers from nVidia were a binary
blob that installed a hacked kernel, hacked some of your system
libraries and installed the drivers without going through yum, rpm or
any other package manager, making them distro-agnostic. Unless my
information's badly out of date, you have to do this again every time
there's a kernel update. The blob's supposed to have an uninstall
function, but it doesn't always (ever?) restore the original versions
of the hacked libraries. This is why I always recommend using the
kmod/akmod version of the drivers instead of the binary blob.
I don't know if you recalled the problems I was having installing the
290.10 nvidia drivers. There was a thread started concerning this
problem. The problem was solved with the downloading of the nvidia
drivers 275.43 from nvidia.com at their recommendation. They had to be
loaded under the auspicious of runlevel3 and this was done with the help
Kevin Martin. If you have a fix using akmod/kmod I will certainly be
open to receiving instruction on how to do it. Thanks for your imput in
this matter.
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Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
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