On Saturday March 29 2003 03:56 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2003 02:44 am, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> > I installed 9.1 and the NVidia video card drivers for the
> > standard kernel, and I find that I cannot boot the mm kernel for
> > lack of proper driver registration for my NVidia card.
> >
> > What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the multimedia
> > one?
>
> You will likely need to build the nvidia drivers for the new
> kernel. Every time I add or rebuild a kernel, even if it is
> essentially the same as my previous kernel with just an option or
> two changed, the NVidia driver needs to be rebuilt for that kernel.
>
> praedor
Two weeks ago I installed the nvidia driver on 9.1. Just to test,
they're removed as of yesterday. I had both the 'regular' kernel,
and the multimedia one installed. And yes, the nvidia src.rpms had
to be built against each new kernel.
I boot directly to KDE. After -ivh 'ing a new MM kernel (there
were several updates during that period), and -Uvh 'ing the
kernel-source for it, I'd shut down and reboot. Of course X would
fail to start, and drop me to a level 3 prompt. I'd log in as root,
rebuild the nvidia src.rpms again, and --force those newly built rpms
in on top of the old ones. Reboot, and all was well again.
Caution tho, any of 9.1's zippy performance was lost while using
the proprietary drivers. Now that I'm back to using the XFree
driver, and the nvidia taints are gone, the system's zippy again ;)
But to tell the truth, the MM kernel doesn't add any noticible zip.
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