Jack Question.

[jb]

Dan Born wrote:
> On Jan 16 22:05, jb wrote:
> 
>>I didn't have any luck in the past trying to install it to more than one 
>>kernel for some reason. I'm using the self installing driver from 
>>Nvidia. It only works for a single kernel. When I boot to a new kernel 
>>it wants to remove the driver from one and install it to the new kernel. 
>>One kernel only, there must be a way to use it for more than one.
> 
> 
> Look under /lib/modules/<kernel-version>, where <kernel-version> is the
> one where you have the nvidia driver successfully installed.  Do a:
> 
>   find . -iname '*nv*'
> 
> I believe there is one .o file for the nvidia driver.  Symlink to it
> from a similar path under the other kernel versions.
> 

I found some info at the NV forum but i haven't checked into it any 
further, yet. I'll post the info below. I think you just add the new 
kernel version to the install command with -K? I'm going to scan over 
the Nvidia install instructions again to see if I can get a little more 
info on how to do it.

Using 2 kernels

Hi, I often test new kernels but when I reboot with a new kernel (new 
version for example 2.6.10) X cannot start.
Actually it can't find the nvidia drivers in /lib/modules/2.6.10 because 
they are in /lib/modules/2.6.9
But when I run the installer it says it has to uninstall the nvidia 
drivers from /lib/modules/2.6.9 to install them into /lib/modules/2.6.10
So each time I want to boot a different kernel I have to reinstall the 
drivers.
Do you have a solution ?

Re: Using 2 kernels
Take a look at the installer's -K (or --kernel-module-only) command line 
option.

Re: Using 2 kernels [RESOLVED]
It worked exactly as I wanted, thanx very much