[arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

[Thomas Bächler]

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.

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