Federico Brega wrote: > I was talking about switching kernel at boot time from GRUB, not when > installing a new one. If you just run NVIDIA installer you have only > one module so it has to be built again to work with a different > kernel. > Module assistant has been an option while my geforce wasn't in the 173 > legacy drivers. > Manually downloading from sid the nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source > and new nvidia-glx I extracted the sources of the kernel module and > built by debian/rules binary-modules. > I don't know if this procedure has some drawbacks. > >
With the nvidia installer it's possible to install a module for other non-running kernels, without removing the current one. This way you'll be able to switch kernel at boot time without the necessity to recompile the nvidia module every time. Just use : sh NVIDIA-Linux-blabla.run -K --kernel-name=2.6.30-test64 with the kernel being whatever suits your setup. The "-K" option tells the installer to not remove the actual module. It's even possible to do it inside a running X session, but not recommended, with the "--no-x-check" option. It's possible to be more precise with : --kernel-source-path= --kernel-install-path= options in the events that the automatic detection performed with the "--kernel-name=" option alone isn't working for your setup. As far as I know there is no drawback with this method, it as been working for me for a while. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
