Re: Request for updated Nvidia RPMS to 1.0-9631

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:13:39 +0100
Matthias Saou
<thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
wrote:

> Edward Rudd wrote :
> 
> > Version 9631 has been released by nvidia which fixes 2 major issues
> > with the previous stable release.
> > 
> >     * Fixed an OpenGL crash on some GeForce 3 and GeForce 4 GPUs.
> >     * Fixed an X server crash starting some fullscreen OpenGL games.
> >     * Improved interaction with newer Linux kernels.
> > 
> > Thank you very much for the rpms BTW.  These are SO much easier to
> > work with than the atrpms nvidia packages.
> 
> Thanks for the notification. Packages are now available.

... and installed here. Working 100% so far, thks Matthias =)

This brings me to the question: is there anyway to upgrade to a new
nvidia driver without rebooting the machine? Using the .run file I know
I can drop to runlevel 2 or 3 and run xxx.run -aqn and old driver will
be replaced, going back to runlevel 5 uses the updated version.
Is something similar possible with dkms? Or is reboot the only way?

Regards,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa