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>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.