[ale] OT: mourning the end of an uptime...

Randy Ramsdell rramsdell at adelphia.net
Wed Mar 15 12:15:37 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:07 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed March 15 2006 11:44 am, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> > Really? That is strange as you should never have to reboot for that
> > reason. I also update Nvidia drivers, but have never rebooted after
> > that.
> so, what do you do to get the new driver installed?? CTRL-backspace to 
> restart X? when I do that from the ALT-F1 command line login, it 
> always logs my users out, right?

I always boot to console then use startx. So when installing Nvidia in
in that console, it removes the module then recompiles the new module
and loads it. I then use "startx." That is all.

rcr 




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