[arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

[David C. Rankin]

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.

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