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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> I took a look at how nvidia's own installer does its job. It works like it
> should, actually it's very nice. It can be told to run in command line
> without any menus, so it's pretty much out-of-the-box SMGL compatible. Also
> the spell is light as a butterfly when the complicated stuff is left for the
> installer to worry about. But...
>
> The installer won't run in X if the nvidia module is already in use. This also
> brings another worry, because the installer has to be called from INSTALL,
> otherwise sorcery won't track what it installs. And when INSTALL is launched,
> a dispel has already taken place. So, if nvidia-installer then refuses
> cooperation, it leaves the user without nvidia_driver.
>
> That could be avoided with a check to see if X is using nvidia. What would be
> the best way to do that?
>
> Still, there's no business casting nvidia_driver in X. I tried to go around
> it, but even with --no-kernel-module it still won't let you install in X.

On 2004-07-25 I added a fix from Eric Laberge that allowed
nvidia_driver to be dispelled and installed while X was running. This
has been working ever since (I use nvidia_driver). What does the new
version do that makes this not work (or another fix to be found)?

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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