David C. Rankin wrote: > Sloan wrote: > >> I was with you until the reboot - I'm confused as to why a reboot would >> even be mentioned. This is not windows after all, so a reboot is not >> needed just to change a setting or restart a service. >> >> Wouldn't "rcxdm restart" do the trick? If not, what am I missing? >> >> Joe >> > > Yes, as long as the driver kernel module did *not* change with the > 1-click install of the nvidia driver, then in addition to rcxdm restart, > there would be a need to rmmod <old.ko> modprobe <new.ko> and a depmod > thrown in for good measure in order to avoid some serious conflicts. My > laptop has ATI so I used to scary driver conflicts, nvidia may be > different, but a reboot is often simpler that sorting out module conflicts.
Wow sounds like ATI is a very sad scene. I haven't used ATI cards for some years because the ATI cards were the only cards that would lock my system up every time I tried to start certain 3D FPS games, while the voodoo graphics, intel and nvidia drivers never did that. On SLED, the nvidia drivers get installed automatically during the OS install if you are online and let the online update run. On opensuse, once you add the nvidia repo and do an online update, the nvidia drivers get installed, and a CTL-ALT-BKSP gets you a new X session with hardware OpenGL support. At home I'm running Intel 945 video on my main desktop and I have to admit it's been nice not having to worry about driver issues at all. The video isn't the fastest in the world, but it's good enough to play quake 3 arena, run google earth and some nice 3D screensavers. It sounds like good times are coming for ATI video card users though, if you can hang on until then. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
