Re: Request for updated Nvidia RPMS to 1.0-9631

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:28:26 -0500
Edward Rudd <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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"
> 

Cool, now I know it works =)

Thks,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa