auto install of nvidia driver

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 09 July 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:34:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 09 July 2007, Brian Millett wrote:
>>>Gene Heskett escribío:
>>>> Greetings;
>>>>
>>>> Attached is a script I've been running for about a month, and which
>>>> autoinstalls the nvidia driver when booting to a new kernel, something
>>>> I do fairly frequently such as to the 2.6.22 I just built.  This
>>>> assumes the latest NVIDIA-*.run file is resident in your root directory
>>>> but it could live anywhere by editing the script.  You'll also need to
>>>> edit it when you have downloaded an even newer version.
>>>>
>>>> This to me was easier than trying to figure out the documentless dkms
>>>> installer.
>>>>
>>>> I run it from rc.local with this line: /root/bin/install-nvidia
>>>>
>>>> Now. if I had a clue, which I don't, I'd redirect another file to this
>>>> such that all the keyboard responses it needs are also automated.
>
>Provided that the package you downloaded from the NVIDIA site
>is made executable, and sym-linked or copied to /root/NVIDIA.run,
>you can place these lines in /etc/rc.local .
>
>==============================
>if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then
>    echo "installing NVIDIA kernel module. This takes some time."
>    /root/NVIDIA.run --no-network -s -K -n
>fi
>==============================
>
>(this hint found on a CentOS mailing list)
>
>Akemi

Thanks again Akemi, this worked very well when I rebooted to 2.6.22 + Con K's 
latest scheduler patch and the ftdi_regr.patch just now.

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