On Monday 09 July 2007, Brian Millett wrote: >Gene Heskett escribío: >> 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. > >You could install 'expect' > I have that, and will peruse the manpages, thanks. >INTRODUCTION > Expect is a program that "talks" to other interactive programs > according to a script. Following the script, Expect knows what can be > expected from a program and what the correct response should be. An > interpreted language provides branching and high-level control structures > to direct the dialogue. In addition, the user can take control and > interact directly when desired, afterward returning control to the script. > > >-- >Brian Millett - [ Markab Ambassador, "The Long Dark"] >"The forces of darkness do not move openly. They work through others. Use > others. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, hid > themselves away in secret places, and waited. Now, the dark hand is > reaching out and recalling them from their sleep." -- 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) Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. -- Arnold Bennett
