Re: Request for updated Nvidia RPMS to 1.0-9631

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:30:10 +0100
Matthias Saou
<thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
wrote:

> 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.

Mmmh... indeed, looks like it could do it. I'll give it a try next time.
Thks =)

Regards,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa