Request for updated Nvidia RPMS to 1.0-9631
Andre Costa
andre.ocosta at terra.com.br
Wed Dec 13 22:29:32 CET 2006
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:30:10 +0100
Matthias Saou
<thias at 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 =)
Regards,
Andre
--
Andre Oliveira da Costa
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