Re: Nvdia module

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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And what happens if the kernel-headers package is out of date because I'm 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
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