Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 04:10, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > > Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > > On 19 Nov 2002 07:14:13 -0500 > > > nbecker@hns.com (Neal D. Becker) wrote: > > > > > > # > > > # Which is, BTW, stupid. > > > > > > Hey, don't look at me (; Bitch at Nvidia for poorly written install > > > scripts. > > > > Could you elaborate on where the scripts need improvement? > They should produce loadable modules in /lib/modules/kernel-version (or > somewhere) so that I can have different ones compiled for different > kernels that I may be running, and not have to re-compile them every > time I boot a different kernel. Err. "They" do. $ locate NVdriver /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver /lib/modules/2.4.18-10/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver /lib/modules/2.4.18-4/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.7.x/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.7.x/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver So any kernel I boot has the NVdriver available. Which, I suppose, begs the question: "Is it my responsibility to build modules for my system, or Red Hat's, or Nvidia's?" No one can anticipate what kernel I'll be using tomorrow. Should I decide to roll my own, to whom should I look to provide me with a driver? > Maybe they produce modules already in > some place I haven't discovered... Also, they could prompt for the > kernel source to compile with, so that I could compile a new version in > anticipation of booting another kernel. (Instead of booting it, having > to stop X from retrying, rebuilding, and then restarting X...) This is addressed and available if you use the source from NVidia, and as I stated earlier in this thread, I would consider it a shortcoming of rpm if you cannot rebuild an rpm against a different kernel source. Also, I believe booting to level 5 should be discouraged. But that borders on religion and should probably be ignored :-) Rinaldi -- By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. --Socrates -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
