advansys scsi == ouch

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 03:43, John McBride wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 02:27, John McBride wrote:
> >
> >>There are workarounds, like the dkms stuff, but 
> >>having used early versions of dkms for our nvidia cards, I'm very gun 
> >>shy of dkms--lots of problems with it, at least for me.
> >
> >I'm the person that's done the dkms package for the advansys driver. If
> >you try it and have any problems I'd be very keen to get it fixed. Do
> >you still use dkms for anything else (sounds like not)? If so, trying
> >out the dkms build shouldn't cause any problems/conflicts for you. 

> I upgraded a FC1 box to FC2 and the dkms could not update the nvidia 
> driver, leaving X hosed. When I tried to remove dkms with "rpm -e" it 
> gave script errors at the end. I had to finally use "updatedb", "locate 
> dkms", "rm -rf blah" and "rpm -e --noscripts" (I think) to remove the 
> rest of dkms from the box and the rpm database.

Ouch. I can see your point there. How long ago was that? I've certainly
not had any problems installing or removing dkms itself (I've been using
it since dkms-1.10, and 2.0.0 came out this week). 

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>