Gustavo De Nardin (spuk) wrote:
> * Anssi Hannula <anssi@(protected)]:
>> Gustavo De Nardin (spuk) wrote:
>>> * Jan Ciger <jan.ciger@(protected)]:
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>>>> Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>>>> Steve Morris wrote:
>>>>>> After the last cooker update I found through update-alternatives that
>>>>>> the opengl interface was not using the nvidia opengl drivers. I have
>>>>>> used update-alternatives to set the opengl drivers back to nvidias. I
>>>>>> also found that xorg.conf had the video driver set to nv instead of
>>>>>> nvidia, which I have now changed back. Why is this occurring as this is
>>>>>> not the first time this has occurred, particularly when the video driver
>>>>>> version has not changed during the update?
>>>>> This happens when you boot a kernel that does not have the proprietary
>>>>> nvidia module installed (and/or dkms couldn't build it).
>>>>>
>>>> On a Cooker-unrelated note - this has happened on 2008.1 too now with
>>>> the recent kernel update, because the -devel packages were not updated
>>>> with the kernel and dkms couldn't build the module.
>>> Do you have the -devel-latest package installed?
>>> y
>> Maybe kernel-foo-x.y.z should suggest kernel-foo-latest and
>
> I think installing -latest by default is enough, if it is missing the user
> must have removed it.

Yeah, but if we make kernel-foo-devel-x.y.z suggests
kernel-foo-devel-latest, it would be better to have the kernel-foo-x.y.z
do the same.

>
>> kernel-foo-devel-x.y.z should suggest kernel-foo-devel-latest?
>
> dkms suggests kernel-devel-latest, shouldn't it be enough?

It probably causes urpmi to ask which devel flavor the user wants.

And just for the record, in 2008.1 no package provides
'kernel-devel-latest' yet.

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Anssi Hannula