auto install of nvidia driver

[Brian Millett]

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.
> 
> 

You could install 'expect'

INTRODUCTION
       Expect is a program that "talks" to other interactive programs according
to a script.  Following the script, Expect knows what can be expected from a
program  and  what  the  correct  response should  be.   An  interpreted
language  provides branching and high-level control structures to direct the
dialogue.  In addition, the user can take control and interact directly when
desired, afterward returning control to the script.


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 others. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, hid
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