nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday March 25 2008 12:37:07 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
> All very well and no doubt true Claude.  But when I installed
> this dkms thing, it came with zero docs, and several questions
> posted here were ignored.  Now, its entirely possible that
> dkms is smarter than the script I wrote, but without any setup
> insructions its just not worth the storage space.  So I wrote
> my own, called at the end of rc.local:

I remember your situation. Yours is a bit different than most 
users and thus, hard for me to comment on. You run as root and 
you roll your own kernels, for starters - whether the DKMS 
script and the nVidia packages from freshrpms were designed, or 
can take advantage of every nuance in your environment is 
impossible for me to say. 

I was reacting to the posters declaiming about being stuck having 
to roll his own modules after every kernel update. If I missed 
any nuance in his situtation, I apologize. For many users, the 
scenario as I described it works just fine. I'm going on three 
years on six different machines with very different hardware in 
this mode, with almost zero problems except the one time I 
noted. 

I've never had to 'setup' DKMS. I simply install the nVidia 
driver from freshrpms, and that request pulls DKMS as a 
dependency or whatever, and after that, it just works. So, my 
experience has been far different than yours. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA