auto install of nvidia driver

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 09 July 2007, Brian Gaynor wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> 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.
>
>DKMS works great for me, no configuration necessary. Just install the
>DKMS rpms and the nVidia driver from freshrpms. I also use the DKMS
>aware wireless driver and everything gets handle automatically at boot.
>
>- Brian

Such info was not made available when I asked about dkms, on this list.  I 
installed it so it was in the inti.d dir, but was never enough to generate a 
peep during the bootups.

Thanks Brian.

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