----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Jasper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUAU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: [luau] NVIDIA driver and kernel upgrades
> 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. > When you do kernel updates, you should always use rpm -ivh which will install an additional kernel and automatically put it into your GRUB boot menu. I think up2date does this automatically too. This allows you to boot back in the old kernel just in case the new kernel is a disaster. This should be common practice for updating kernels in any Linux distribution. Always install additional kernels, and do not delete old kernels until you are SURE the new kernel works properly. I updated a friend's system yesterday from 2.4.18-17.8.0 to 2.4.18-18.8.0 and I needed to re-install the nVidia kernel modules. I kept around the NVIDIA_kernel*.src.rpm module so it was a snap. Unfortunately you do have to download the nearly 30MB kernel-source*.src.rpm package but that isn't too bad for broadband people.
