On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Claude Jones wrote: >On Tue March 6 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Hi Claude; >> >> I just got the noarch rpm from Dell's site figuring its the newest. >> But I got lost at turn one trying to follow the setup instructions. >> At the present time I'm building it with the NVIDIA-Linux installer >> and that seems to be working ok. But its a pita to remember to do it. >> >> Do you have it setup to autobuild the nvidia video card stuff? If so, >> can you post the files that enable it please? > >All I do is have freshrpms repo enabled. I install the nvidia driver and > the dkms package from there. They just work. I've done this on multiple > machines. You also have to have the kernel-headers package installed > for your kernel - once you've done that one time, regular updates take > care of themselves. If a new kernel is installed by an update (it will > also pull in the new kernel-header package), it's detected on boot-up, > and dkms runs its script to build the new kernel-module. When the > machine comes up, the nvidia driver is active with the new kernel - > it's just really that simple - at least in my experience. I've got two > FC6 boxes and two Blag boxes (Fedora derivative), and this is the > process I've followed on all of them. I'm hoping someone with greater > scripting skills than I will write a similar routine for the vmware > player/server modules - the only thing remaining that I have to rebuild > after a kernel update. > And what happens if the kernel-headers package is out of date because I'm running a home built 2.6.20-rds kernel? If it uses the right uname -r linkage, they'll be ok, but who knows what nvidia does... >-- >Claude Jones >Brunswick, MD, USA Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You know, Callahan's is a peaceable bar, but if you ask that dog what his favorite formatter is, and he says "roff! roff!", well, I'll just have to...
