[nzlug] Dapper Upgrade Experience

[Steven Ellis]

Robin Sheat wrote:

>On Thursday 27 July 2006 15:47, Steven Ellis wrote:
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>
>>Verry odd as i'm on Dapper and I have the legacy driver installed
>>    sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy
>>    
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>nvidia-glx-legacy is the GLX side of things. That works fine, it's the kernel 
>modules that I have to build each time. I've managed to distil it down to a 
>script, which means I don't have to look up how to do it each time. (this 
>script presumes you have have the package nvidia-legacy-kernel-source 
>installed already, I should probably make it check that and install it if 
>needed):
>  
>
Now i'm not needing any of this.

root at host:/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-k7# uname -a
Linux host 2.6.15-26-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 7 20:10:15 UTC 2006 i686 
GNU/Linux
root at host:/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-k7# ls -l 
/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-k7/volatile/nv*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5176702 2006-07-24 07:06 
/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-k7/volatile/nvidia.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4411119 2006-07-24 07:06 
/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-k7/volatile/nvidia_legacy.ko

When I upgrade the kernel these are automatically created.

Steve