-nvidia upgrade issues

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Thu Nov 5 19:04:52 GMT 2009


On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:29:04AM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi Bryce:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 01:44, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > Btw, in poking around in dkms.conf I noticed this:
> >
> > PACKAGE_VERSION="185.18.31"
> >
> > Shouldn't that be 185.18.36?  Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of
> > this file?
> >
> > If you have encountered a scenario where that doesn't reflect the version
> installed, that's a bug for sure in the nvidia driver package you are
> working with, and I am certain there will be future problems on such a
> system.

No, this was just from the copy in the source package.  Sounds like it
gets replaced by the one generated from dkms.conf.in so this dkms.conf
appears to just be a stray.

Thanks,
Bryce



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