Request for updated Nvidia RPMS to 1.0-9631

[Matthias Saou]

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.

Matthias

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