[ATrpms-devel] [ATrpms-users] FC6 yum update doesn't update nvidia-graphics kmdl

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On 3/25/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:07:03AM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > I agree. That is what was happening to me. I did no make the test
> > again because there is no 9746 driver for 2.6.20, and in this case, 9755
> > is alone in the kernel and is loaded appropriately. But I could have
> booted
> > using an older kernel to make the test again. However, I just not did it
> > yet.
>
> There is 9746 for the 2.6.20 kernels, too, if you wnat to check.
>
> > I just would like to add that /etc/ld.so.conf was also correct and all
> the
> > symbolic links in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/, as far as I remember.
> >
> > Maybe something has changed in recent kernels?
>
>
Axel, what does make a kernel pick a module in /lib/modules/.../updates,
instead of the original version in its original place, as in video4linux?

In the nvidia case both modules are in updates.  Why one would be preferred
to the other?


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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