Re: Request for updated Nvidia RPMS to 1.0-9631
Matthias Saou <thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
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Andre Costa wrote : > 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? I haven't tried it, but switching to runlevel 2 or 3, then doing : modprobe -r nvidia lsmod | grep nvidia And checking that the old module is no longer loaded, then switching back to runlevel 5 should be enough. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2835.fc6 Load : 0.27 0.18 0.13