[PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake

[Ben Koenig]

If you run lsmod you will probably notice that the nvidia driver module is
not loaded. At least it shouldn't be.
When you install the nvidia driver (or any 3rd party driver) it has to
build a kernel module for that kernel. When you upgrade your kernel to a
new version, the nvidia module must be re-built.

if you take a look at the nvidia driver packages you created, one of them
will have an unusual naming scheme. 'nvidia-kernel' will have the version
of your old kernel in the filename. This is the kernel version it was built
for.

What you want to do is re-run the slackbuild for nvidia-kernel, and then
install it with upgradepkg (or just remove and install the new file). Once
you install the new nvidia-kernel, you can probably just reboot and it will
figure itself out.

nvidia-driver can be left alone. Only the kernel space stuff needs to be
upgraded.

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 4:53 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> I ran slackpkg update and then slackpkg upgrade-all. There was a kernel
> upgrade included, and I neglected to copy /boot/vmlinuz-huge to
> /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz. Of course, the machine would not work
> correctly when I rebooted. I watched it load, but the mouse and keyboard
> were not operating. I booted from the install USB stick. Then I created
> mount points for sda1 and sda2. Then I copied /boot/vmlinuz-huge from
> sda2 to /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz. When I rebooted mouse and
> keyboard worked and I was able to log in. However, I only one monitor is
> working. Alas, I don't have notes from the clinic that tell me what was
> fixed then to get both monitors working.
>
> A clue stick will be appreciated, and once I'm done, I'll keep notes to
> follow in the future (even write the script that was recommended weeks
> ago) so this doesn't happen again.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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