I agree
One nice feature Mandriva has is when you update the kernel and reboot, it runs a program to reinstall the nvidia/ati driver for the new kernel. So whats needed is for ubuntu to get a init script that checks to see if the kernel has the nvidia/ati driver installed, if not install it, if that fails edit the xorg.conf file and change nvidia to nv. You "only" install the extra init script if the nvidia/ati driver is installed (add it to the dependencies for the driver package). This is such a simple thing in reality and I'm surprised Ubuntu hasn't picked up on this yet. Richard Neal Dinosours become extinct while penguins thrive. science article scene on www.dig.com On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 10:00 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > In Ubuntu, Automatix/EasyUbuntu can be used to install a range of things > which > are not normally available in the distribution. If I use one of these scripts > to install something which interfaces with the kernel, what happens when I > receive a kernel update and reboot? For example, if I use them to install > Nvidia graphics drivers, will X be wrecked after the kernel is upgraded? > > I am not so worried about my own systems (I can take care of myself), but I > am > concerned for the ordinary users for whom I have installed Ubuntu. I don't > want them all calling me every time there is a kernel update to complain that > they can't get graphics. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
