Charles Sullivan wrote:

> I'm running Fedora Core 2 on a system with an
> MSI Video card with the Nvidia MX4000 chip.
>
> I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from
> the Nvidia website without a problem.
>
> When I upgrade the kernel via up2date I have to
> reinstall the Nvidea drivers, which is not a problem
> in itself.**However*Xorg*appears*to*store*the
> driver module in only one place, regardless of the
> kernel version.**So*if*I*reboot*with*an*older*kernel
> the driver for the newer kernel won't work, and if
> I then reinstall the driver for the older kernel, then
> it overwrites the driver for the newer kernel.
>
> Is there any relatively clean way to get around this
> problem, i.e., to have the appropriate video driver
> linked to each kernel version as are the other kernel
> modules?

Use a symlink to one of the various versions of the driver instead of
placing the actual driver in the single location. As you change kernels,
change the symlink.

Don't cross-post.

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