On Wednesday 26 August 2009 02:54:50 am Thomas Bächler wrote:
David C. Rankin schrieb:
How do you handle the situation where you are running the nvidia
driver on
the normal kernel and then boot to the lts kernel? The kernel boots fine, but X is dead, presumably because the nvidia driver isn't compiled against that kernel and laughs when you tell it to start.
You don't. It's a kernel meant for servers, there won't be any module packages for it. A machine that needs the nvidia driver is not a server.
Any way of having a separate driver in the lts kernel module tree? To do that would you just install the nvidia driver again while the lts kernel is running and have it get put in the right place?
There's a PKGBUILD for nvidia, you can make it nvidia-lts with a few simple modifications. But again, you miss the point of this kernel package.
(smacks self for obvious stupidity -- twice for good measure ;-) Thomas, Thanks. The boxes I put the lts kernel on are just that. But, being the perpetual tinkerer, I thought I would kick the tires as many ways as I could. Now, learning has occurred, and I don't have to pick around trying to get X going when I boot the lts kernel. The x86_64 kernel boots and works just fine so far. I'll work wit the i686 kernel today time permitting. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com