I don't know how many of you have heard about the vulnerability in the redhat kernel but as usual they have put out a fix in a very timely manner... Unlike some other corporations *cough* M$ *cough*. Anyway, I let the redhat network update my kernel and booted it... To my surprise X didn't work, until I realized that I had compiled the NVIDIA kernel drivers for the old kernel and smacked myself on the head for not thinking of it sooner (I had a long night ok? :P). The moral of the email is... If you install a new kernel version and are using an NVIDIA card... You need to recompile the drivers which is why you should download the src rpms rather than the precompiled ones and use the 'rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile' command on them which will put the rpms in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ directory so you can install them as usual.
I know many of you probably already know this but I thought I might as well post it for prosperities sake for those who don't use NVIDIA cards at the moment and get one in the future. Oh, and as an off note.. Anyone else here use Gentoo? I have it on one of my systems and like it quite a bit. I admit that it is a pain to install but you get a custom compiled system that is very responsive.
