[Lunar-commits] r24760 - moonbase/trunk/x11/NVIDIA-beta

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Saturday 09 of June 2007 12:11:15 Moritz Heiber wrote:
> Please explain the changes you made to this module.

1. When NVIDIA-beta was executed by kernel-reqs the present kernel was used 
instead new one. See var/log/lunar/install/NVIDIA-beta-100.14.09 log if you 
not lined this module after booting new kernel. If so I can send you mine to 
show difference before and after. It is possible to play more with previous 
build script to fix this but #2 point make such fix nonsense.

I have compared installed log of old build and new build. The only difference 
is the new build script is focused only on new kernel instead of old one 
which looks more at older kernel.

2. nvidia-bug-report script collects some data from system to help Nvidia 
developers find and correct problems with Nvidia driver. The previous build 
script causes report log created by nvidia-bug-report to be incomplete. Such 
broken report suggest the kernel module was not compiled and not installed.

Comparison of logs nvidia-bug-report makes, shows that compilation stage is 
not present when generated by older module installation - log has warning 
inside which says the kernel module might not be compiled. Nvidia developer 
who will read such log may assume you have problems just because the kernel 
module was not compiled. In new build method nvidia-bug-report always create 
full log.

I have not noticed any breaks. This module update is sitting in zlocal since 
2.6.20 and safely co-worked with kernel-reqs during every transition since 
2.6.20 kernel.

I do not know if I can put on this list binaries but could post pictures which 
shows differences old vs new.

> I don't think it 
> fixes anything at all but only goes back to being broken like it was in
> the first place.

What do you mean by going back to being broken?
What was at first place?
I browsed svn changelog of this module and see nothing except recent geforce 8 
updates.