auto install of nvidia driver

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Jul 9 13:34:25 UTC 2007


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.
>
>You could install 'expect'
>
I have that, and will peruse the manpages, thanks.

>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.
>
>
>--
>Brian Millett - [ Markab Ambassador, "The Long Dark"]
>"The forces of darkness do not move openly. They work through others. Use
> others. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, hid
> themselves away in secret places, and waited. Now, the dark hand is
> reaching out and recalling them from their sleep."



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