On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:51:12AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2006-05-31 at 03:46 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
them. This is what will replace the hackish "run an online update to download the driver", which really broke as soon as nvidia released a new version of their driver, because the patch script you downloaded only retrieved the version which was current at the time of release.
That was intentional.
If you install any other version of the driver, as soon as YOU installs a kernel update, your video fails after reboot, forcing people to drop to runlevel 3 and reinstall the driver - if they know how.
Keeping to one version of the driver only, the kernel had the kernel part of the driver compiled, and video worked after kernel updates seamlessly.
Actually the downloadable version was not doing this, you needed to run it only once. We had a small kernel module wrapper for Nvidia already to cope with that. Ciao, Marcus