On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM, David Rosenstrauch<darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/26/2009 02:23 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> Andreas, >> >> How do you handle the situation where you are running the nvidia >> driver on the normal kernel and then boot to the lts kernel? The kernel >> boots fine, but X is dead, presumably because the nvidia driver isn't >> compiled against that kernel and laughs when you tell it to start. Any way >> of having a separate driver in the lts kernel module tree? To do that would >> you just install the nvidia driver again while the lts kernel is running and >> have it get put in the right place? >> >> I guess so, I'll give it a go tomorrow. If that sounds like a >> really bad idea, let me know. Thanks. > > > Sounds like a bad idea to me. As Andreas indicated, the intended use of the > lts kernel is for servers, in order to let them avoid frequent kernel > upgrades. It'd be a huge amount more work for him to provide > desktop-oriented modules for that kernel as well (e.g., various video cards, > various wireless network cards, virtualbox, etc.) I half-way agree. The issue is that, no matter what you _intend_ with something, people will always do something you don't expect. It's part of the reason you see warnings like "Do not put in nose" on a package for an electric toothbrush :) We _may_ have to maintain the out-of-tree network drivers, at the very least, but I don't know if nvidia is worth it. Perhaps someone will begin making a side repo with additional LTS modules (*hint* *hint*)
