almost every kernel upgrade I have to disable the nvidia driver (proprietary)

Mike Hearn mike at navi.cx
Mon Mar 14 13:33:24 CST 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 18:52 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> Why are workarounds needed? If there is a new kernel package and the
> nvidia modules haven't been rebuilt for it yet....I just wait. You don't
> *have* to do a "smart" (argh!) upgrade every time ;)

I have to admit I have no idea what smart mode does, I just thought it'd
have to be better than stupid mode :) Synaptic seems to do a pretty good
job of making apt non-scary but asking the user if it should be smart or
not is a bit of a loaded question (discussed before I'm sure).

thanks -mike




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