On Monday 09 July 2007, Claude Jones wrote: >On Mon July 9 2007 16:16:05 Gene Heskett wrote: >> Such info was not made available when I asked about dkms, on >> this list. I installed it so it was in the inti.d dir, but >> was never enough to generate a peep during the bootups. > >Now wait a minute you young whippersnapper. On March 6, 2007 you >and I had the following exchange on this list: > Who you calling a young whippersnapper? Besides, that far back up the log, you were asking me to change how I was doing it, which I knew worked, for something that had yet to ever show up in the logs or on the boot screen. So I stayed with and fine tuned what worked. >**************************************** > >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. > >http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-March/msg00819.html > >************************ >you just chose to ignore my suggestion ;-) And just as obviously, forget it, a prerogative for an old fart. A "young whippersnapper" indeed, what the heck is this list coming to anyway? Don't answer that, I probably don't want to know. Besides I have it from reliable sources that one is no older than who you feel. This is a bit like skinning cats, we have a huge surplus of cats, but fewer time tested recipes, so I thought I'd throw out mine and got what looks to be a better one back. >-- >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) Gee, I feel kind of LIGHT in the head now, knowing I can't make my satellite dish PAYMENTS!
