Re: nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

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On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:25 +1100, Peter McNeil wrote:
> For some reason the update to a new kernel seems to randomly point to a 
> kernel to boot by default which would be OK but the livna nvidia setup 
> breaks the older kernels nvidia module, so you need to make sure you 
> boot on the latest kernel by default (by editing /etc/grub.conf to point 
> to the latest kernel).
> 
> The "solution" is to install the nvidia module manually from the nvidia 
> site download, which is not really a simple option.

Just my two cents, but it has been the simple answer for me. I update
the kernel, re-run the installer and I'm back up and running in minutes,
instead of dinking around with yum doing it's thing and then maybe not
finding the version to match my kernel at first. Nary a burp in the
barrel. Ric

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