On Wed January 16 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > I have a question about this, please. > > I have an NVIDIA card, and after some updates I get the black screen of > > death, and I have to change my video driver to nv and restart X. > > If I reboot into an older kernel, will my nvidia driver work? It never > > fails, I need to use the computer for something when that happens, and I > > don't have the time right then to rebuild my video driver with the > > current setup.. > > The nvidia driver actually consists of a kernel module in > /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko and some binary > drivers elsewhere - thus it is kernel-specific. It has to be compiled > against *this* kernel (the one running) and nothing else, or it won't work > - that's why you're getting BSOD when you restart the machine into a new > kernel - every kernel keeps its modules in its own subdir in /lib/modules - > which is a Good Thing ;-).
I guess I didn't ask the right question. ok, say I am running this: 2.6.22-2-686 and nvidia is working. I get updates, and reboot into 2.6.22-3-686 . nvidia doesn't work. can I reboot and use the other choice: 2.6.22-2-686 and will nvidia still work? I keep the NVIDIA-*.run files on my system, so I can recompile them into the new setup, but sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes I don't have time to mess with it, so my question is: can I reboot into the older kernel and will the nvidia driver work? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459