X, nvidia, memory

[andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Brett Worth wrote:

[...]
> I use the src rpms from NVIdia on a GeFORCE II card and everytime I install
> a new kernel I have to rebuild and reinstall the src rpms.  This usually
> looks something like:
>
> rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.src.rpm
> rpm -i --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm
> rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2314.src.rpm
> rpm -i --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2314.i386.rpm
>
> Some of this might be redundant but I dont need to think about it. :-)

Yes, some of it is redundant - the GLX package doesn't need to be rebuild
or reinstalled.  That's the binary-only bit, btw - the "src" rpm just
contains the same binary files as the binary rpm, and rebuilding it just
copies the files into a new binary rpm.  Still, you're not hurting
anything.

My method of driver reinstallation (after each kernel upgrade)  is a
little different.  I extracted the kernel module src rpm somewhere (using
rpm2cpio), and just go there and "make install" after booting a new
kernel.  But your way is probably simpler :)

Andrew