nvidia drivers and kernel

[cjq]

I have nvidia drivers working fine on one of my kernels but i wish to use another as well which the drivers don't work when i start up. can i install the drivers on this new kernel without altering my other kernels settings?

[mowses]

I am a real newbie but iirc I read something that you can specify the kernel you want to run the drivers in the .run script for.

Try calling the .run script with --advanced-options somewhere at the end it is what you are looking for. I hope.

[bwkaz]

The problem is, the .run script will try to remove the kernel module that's set up for the old kernel when you try to install it under the new one.

To get around this, install it once through the installer, then boot to the other kernel, and pass the --extract-only option to the .run file. Then, cd into the newly-created directory, and from there cd into usr/src/nv (note the lack of a slash at the beginning). Then, do a make, switch to root, and do a make install (or, if you make as root, it'll install itself). This doesn't delete the old module, at least I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

As always, run /sbin/depmod -ae afterward. You can also delete the directory that the .run file created.