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At least on Fedora, if you use the binary NVIDIA driver, on kernel updates you also have to make sure that you update your drivers to use the latest kernel head
by DrJokepu 17y ago
At least on Fedora, if you use the binary NVIDIA driver, on kernel updates you also have to make sure that you update your drivers to use the latest kernel headers. I typically forget this step so after the reboot I'm greeted by the console prompt. Recompile, reboot again. Annoys the hell out of me.
- russss 17y agoUbuntu has DKMS which automates this whole process. You just get a pause on bootup while it recompiles the driver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
- DrJokepu 17y agoFedora also has DKMS according to this: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/dkms https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/dkms However the NVIDIA driver has its own installer and stuff so I don't think it works nicely with DKMS. Probably that's why it's not working at all in this case.
- russss 17y agoWorks for me on Ubuntu - although I do install my nvidia drivers using Envy, so maybe it's that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy_(software)