Axel Thimm wrote: > But you still need to restart X to allow the installed nvidia driver > to take over. You would even need to rmmod nvidia and modprobe it > again otherwise you'd be running the old nvidia kernel module with the > new nvidia X11 driver. I am relatively inexperienced in GNU/Linux (recent full adopter), the upgrade/installation process I have been following is this: 1) Remove previous nvidia rpms if present. 2) Install the latest nvidia rpms 3) Reboot. 4) Run nvidia-settings-1.0-xxxx (or just plain nvidia-settings). 5) Run nvidia-xconfig-1.0-xxxx 6) Reboot. xxxx= version number > So the full steps are: > > o install the driver (e.g. via ATrpms' rpms or manually via the > installer, whatever suits you best) > o exit X (go runlevel 3) > o rmmod nvidia > o modprobe nvidia > o restart X (telinit 5) > > It's easier to ask for a reboot, though, and it is not guaranteed that > rmmod'ing an old nvidia kernel module will really restore the chip to > what the next modprobe expects. nvidia recommends to power-cycle your > system when upgrading the kernel module, but it usually works w/o. I suppose this is the process to avoid reboots?