Re: asking for rebooting in libDrakx-standalone

On 19.04.2011 21:15, Diego Bello wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm translating a new string in libDrakX-standalone which says: "The
> system has to be rebooted due to a display driver change."
> 
> For what I know, you don't need to reboot the system but only to
> restar the X server. Who can confirm this?

This message is shown during the boot process if the kernel boot options
are incompatible with the currently configured driver. It is not
normally shown when you use XFdrake to switch the driver as XFdrake
handles updating bootloader configuration as well.

It is mostly shown if
a) a user switches manually to a proprietary driver or vesa, or
b) a driver change is done during the boot from radeon/nouveau/i915
   to a proprietary driver or vesa.

Also, the system has to rebooted completely as unloading KMS drivers is
somewhat tricky business.

-- 
Anssi Hannula