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#1 2015-07-30 09:56:25
- bjorntj
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Upgrade from one stable kernel to another and Nvidia?
Just wondering when pacman shows a kernel upgrade, will it also give me an upgrade for the Nvidia driver if that is necessary or do I need to do some manual work?
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#2 2015-07-30 10:29:26
- tomk
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Re: Upgrade from one stable kernel to another and Nvidia?
Both are official Arch packages, so yes, they will be upgraded together.
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#3 2015-07-30 10:32:26
- bjorntj
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Re: Upgrade from one stable kernel to another and Nvidia?
Ok, that's what I thought, just had to be sure before I upgraded just the kernel.... 
Last edited by bjorntj (2015-07-30 10:37:07)
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#4 2015-07-30 21:45:19
- karol
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Re: Upgrade from one stable kernel to another and Nvidia?
Not sure what you mean, but partial upgrades are unsupported.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … nsupported
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#5 2015-07-30 21:47:53
- bjorntj
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Re: Upgrade from one stable kernel to another and Nvidia?
No, I was refering to pacman only showing a kernel update at the moment and no nvidia update... Kernel 4.1.2 -> 4.1.3...
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#6 2015-07-31 08:29:00
- V1del
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Re: Upgrade from one stable kernel to another and Nvidia?
Minor kernels usually don't break ABI so that's why you aren't getting an update in that case, bigger ones 4.1.x -> 4.2 will probably update the nvidia package again
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#7 2015-07-31 08:39:15
- bjorntj
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Re: Upgrade from one stable kernel to another and Nvidia?
Yes, that's what I thought...
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