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An inconvenient "update"

Postby DaddyX3 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:50 pm

Had an inconvenient "update" happen to me last night. Installed all updates and it wiped my Nvidia drivers out :twisted: Had to reinstall them again. Not too big of a deal for me, but I could only imagine the pain the ATI guys will have to endure. It did something that even made the xorg.conf file in-operable. I think what happed is that it updated the a kernel and that in-turn wiped out the usability of the Nvidia drivers xorg.conf file. I thought this stuff only happened in M$ :o
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Re: An inconvenient "update"

Postby LeadFingers » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:17 pm

Why is it, the hard lessons we remember the best.
Had the same thing happen, with my first Ultimate Edition install.
Was so proud that I whupped the foul Nvidia demon, then next thing I know I'm staring at botched boot-up.
Had to do the whole thing over again. (grumbling the whole time)
It was after that happened, I read the warning on the Envy site where he says to uninstall drivers (that were installed with envy )before a update.
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Re: An inconvenient "update"

Postby drama » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:19 am

in response to what daddyx3 stated about ati users. i use ati as almost everyone on this board prob knows. i install mine the old fashioned way though. i dont use envy its all manual. so this may not apply to the ppl that do use envy. but my kernel got updated too. however it caused me no problems. this i imagine is due to the fact that dkms is now used within the inital built process. and will automatically rebuild the kernel mod for you. no questions asked. anytime you upgrade the kernel. i actually didnt know that the mod got rebuilt automatically on updates until i actually seen it happening myself. pretty cool if you ask me. well anywayz thats just my 2 cents. cheers guys. :-)
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Re: An inconvenient "update"

Postby Baphomet » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:42 pm

DaddyX3 wrote:Had an inconvenient "update" happen to me last night.

That's a polite way to put it. Same thing happened to me. I was getting the black-screen-of-death until I was able to finagle an edit of xorg.conf that got me to the desktop (at something like 480x600 (!!), but whatever) where I could reinstall the driver. Most annoying in my opinion.


DaddyX3 wrote:I thought this stuff only happened in M$...

My thought's exactly.
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