Re: Request for updated Nvidia RPMS to 1.0-9631

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 19:44 -0200, Andre Costa wrote:
> 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 =)
> 

If you want to be all crazy at some point, I have a script that to take
care of this.  Basically it backs up /etc/sysconfig/desktop and replaces
it with my file that sets DISPLAYMANAGER to nvidia-reload, and then
calls gdm-safe-restart.  When inittab reloads the inittab
calls /etc/X11/prefdm.  That script runs nvidia-reload, which unloads
the nvidia module and sets the /etc/sysconfig/desktop script back to the
original.  

It sounds complex but gets the upgrade done with a single command.
Calling gdm-safe-restart actually makes the whole upgrade process hang
out until all users log out.  I can post all that if anyone is
interested.

Jon