Actually, I wanted to ask a some what unrelated question as well: I've heard it's possible to update kernel without rebooting, and while I'm not sure of the advisability, I'm getting things to work here and I'd like to not have to reboot my computer so many times. Besides, it just sounds cool. Could someone tell me how to do it?
-Peter On 5/19/07, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, so I just did a fresh install of 2007.0. I used the same method as before (networkless install and then configured sources from kernel.org), to get my system running again. It crashes far less often, but still has a little trouble with compiling linux sources (that was while using the livecd kernel). However, I'm writing you from the machine in question, so that's a good sign. I'll mess with it and emerge some stuff, try 2.6.20 vanilla-sources and let you know how it goes. I'm also going to try the Linux drivers from the nvidia website. While I trust Gentoo, I'm sure NVidia is more up to date. I don't think I enabled the in-kernel nvidia drivers, so I should be fine. -Peter On 5/15/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isidore Ducasse wrote: > > le Tue, 15 May 2007 19:58:40 +0100 > > Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > > > > > >>> Try running a later or earlier > >>> driver, if it's an nvidia or ati. If it's not then you'll need to try > >>> a different version of Xorg. > >>> > >> IIRC, there are issues with nvidia and framebuffer modes. > >> Try booting with vga=normal on the kernel command line. > >> > >> Antoine > >> > > > > Yes, I use nvidia-drivers and udev keeps loading the nvidiafb LKM, which doesn't work since we've been presented. I even tried to update udev rules, moving the "nvidia*" rule to "nvidia", so that it would only load the private firmware, but in vain. > > > > Florent > > > From the guide; > > *Important: * For x86 and AMD64 processors, the in-kernel driver > conflicts with the binary driver provided by nVidia. If you will be > compiling your kernel for these CPUs, you must completely remove support > for the in-kernel driver as shown: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > > -- > Powered by Gentoo/Linux > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >
