[arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 08/26/2009 02:23 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Andreas,
> 
> 	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. 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?
> 
> 	I guess so, I'll give it a go tomorrow. If that sounds like a really bad 
> idea, let me know. Thanks.


Sounds like a bad idea to me.  As Andreas indicated, the intended use of 
the lts kernel is for servers, in order to let them avoid frequent 
kernel upgrades.  It'd be a huge amount more work for him to provide 
desktop-oriented modules for that kernel as well (e.g., various video 
cards, various wireless network cards, virtualbox, etc.)

DR