Re: Request for updated Nvidia RPMS to 1.0-9631

Andre Costa wrote:
> 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 =)

I do that all the time.  Well Technically I just upgrade the package,
then log out and wait while X fails to start a few times and GDM catches
it and says "Hey, X is crashing alot! Do you want to look at the logs??"
 Then I choose "no a few times" switch to console 1, log in rmmod
nvidia, then modprobe nvidia, and then finally "gdm-restart"