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. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
