Nvdia module

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 3/6/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Claude Jones wrote:
> >On Tue March 6 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Hi Claude;
> >>
> >> I just got the noarch rpm from Dell's site figuring its the newest.
> >> But I got lost at turn one trying to follow the setup instructions.
> >> At the present time I'm building it with the NVIDIA-Linux installer
> >> and that seems to be working ok. But its a pita to remember to do it.
> >>
> >> Do you have it setup to autobuild the nvidia video card stuff? If so,
> >> can you post the files that enable it please?
> >
> >All I do is have freshrpms repo enabled. I install the nvidia driver and
> > the dkms package from there. They just work. I've done this on multiple
> > machines. You also have to have the kernel-headers package installed
> > for your kernel - once you've done that one time, regular updates take
> > care of themselves. If a new kernel is installed by an update (it will
> > also pull in the new kernel-header package), it's detected on boot-up,
> > and dkms runs its script to build the new kernel-module. When the
> > machine comes up, the nvidia driver is active with the new kernel -
> > it's just really that simple - at least in my experience. I've got two
> > FC6 boxes and two Blag boxes (Fedora derivative), and this is the
> > process I've followed on all of them. I'm hoping someone with greater
> > scripting skills than I will write a similar routine for the vmware
> > player/server modules - the only thing remaining that I have to rebuild
> > after a kernel update.
> >
> And what happens if the kernel-headers package is out of date because I'm
> running a home built 2.6.20-rds kernel?  If it uses the right uname -r
> linkage, they'll be ok, but who knows what nvidia does...

The same thing.


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