 | | | Forgive the rant...but | Forgive the rant...but 2004-12-02 - By Ed Westphal
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Is it really quite impossible to have a kernel update check for the
installed video driver and just use that? The problem is, as everyone
knows all too well is with the NVidia drivers. Each time the kernel gets
tweaked, have to use some time to recompile the NVidia instead of the
generic NV. Not that it's such a big deal, but just gets a little old
and tiring. This time around, thought I'd try to be 'smart' - lack of
tools and proper equipment between my ears; and run the driver script to
compile to the new kernel, before rebooting. AAAHHnnT! Tells me I
already have the driver loaded! True - but to the old kernel, not the
new one that I wanted it compiled to! So, back to the old dance, shut
down and reboot without X, run script, modify conf for NVidia and reboot
back into X. I'm very thankful that I don't have a shop full of NVidias
to have to do this for! If someone could please advise, is there a
graphics card out there, higher end, that the kernel will just be happy
to get along with & use OpenGL - without a little extra tweaking, every
time there's an update? My apologies - bad migraine day.
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Ed Westphal <enwestph@(protected)>
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