Another extremely urgent nVidia driver testing request

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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Oliver Grawert wrote:
| hi,
| Am Montag, den 04.04.2005, 12:30 +0200 schrieb Martin Pitt:
|
|>However, what about adding "rmmod nvidia && modprobe nvidia" to the
|>postinst somewhere?
|
| or one, you would have to leave X in any case for this, else you wont be
| able to unload the module...

exactly.

| and this could end up with a system in very bad shape in some cases:
|
| if you upgrade l-r-m and linux-image at the same time _and_ have a abi
| change, the module will expect the matching kernel....
| which is not there without reboot, so the postinst must fail.

This case cannot happen.

| ... but a hint like:
| "you should reboot to make the new binary module work"
| in the postinst would be nice.

agreed.

Fabio


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