On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:44:43AM -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2007 03:53:18 am Dave Plater wrote: > [...] > > I decided to go > > along and included kernel sources for said downgrade (upgrade for my old > > 2.6.22.9-0.4 ) > > and downloaded the whole kernel-default-2.6.22.13-0.3.i586.rpm and > > source and syms (remember I once said I wanted yast to keep copies once > > and smart package manager doesn't work properly yet) . > > I then rebooted and as usual my x server didn't start. I was ready for > > this. I logged in as root and ran NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run and > > it fixed my nvidia problem. > > My main problem is why did I have to do that, why couldn't my desktop > > come up immediately. > > http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA > Section "The easy way" warning in the blue box. > > I just moved warning before any version related information as it is valid > for > all versions, present and future. Sometimes, to satisfy more improtant > reasons of computer security and stability, kernel is updated in a such way > that old precompiled driver is no more compatible with new kernel.
Actually the warning is wrong I think, because I *think* that the drivers have been updated to match the latest secuity updates. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
