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Re: [Cooker] Cooker update knocked out nvidia driver and nvidias opengl driver

Olivier Blin

2008-06-05

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Jan Ciger <jan.ciger@(protected):

> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On stable releases, we don't use the source DKMS packages by default, we
>> use binary packages which are updated each time the kernel is. I know
>> this has been working fine for 2008 Spring so far, because if it hadn't
>> been, my forums would be inundated with people complaining. :) If you
>> would prefer to use the source DKMS packages, you can remove the binary
>> one and make sure you install kernel-foo-devel-latest.
>
> Right, but that was the issue - new kernel was out, I have updated as
> prompted by the applet and after reboot I got greeted by the message
> that X is using the free "nv" driver because the correct modules were
> not in place.
>
> OK, I think I have got the culprit - it was XFdrake that has installed it:

Culprit of what?
Installing the dkms source package does not cause problems here.

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Olivier Blin (blino) - Mandriva
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