Richard Neal wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote:
Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle
nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades.
Not saying it does just saying when you do a kernel update it doesnt
simple check on the reboot to make sure the nvidia driver is
re-initiated for that kernel.
I have done many Ubuntu kernel upgrades with nvidia drivers installed,
no problems at all.
All you need is the nvidia-glx package which does the rest.
Automatix and EasyUbuntu simply apt-get the nvidia-glx packages just as
a user would do manually.
Mandriva has a nicer method, how about not having to download the nvidia
package again "ever" even with kernel updates and to be honest why the
hell would you unless the old driver package needs updating.
I am not going to get into a pointless discussion on which distro
handles upgrades better!!
The point I was making was not that Ubuntu was better than Mandriva, I
even stated this at the end of the email when I wrote
"PS. Ubuntu rox (not to say Mandriva doesn't of course)"
but was referring to the comment "I'm surprised Ubuntu hasn't picked up
on this yet" when in fact Ubuntu does handle nvidia / kernel upgrades
very nicely.
Hey, both distro's handle it well - but in different ways. I prefer the
Ubuntu method, you prefer Mandriva's, but for you to say Ubuntu hasn't
picked up on this yet, is quite frankly ill informed.
I believe the original question regarding automatix / easyubuntu simply
asked *if* there were any issues, when the answer is no there is not,
Ubuntu looks after the drivers in its own way.
I like people being passionate about Linux and their chosen distro, but
lets not get into the , "My distro is better than yours" crap!
Any pun I made was to counter yours, it was very much tongue in cheek!
Tuxta
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