On Monday July 9 2007 5:56:45 pm Claude Jones wrote: > 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 ;-) by the way.... shortly after I sent that off, I finished up a fresh install of F7 on a machine I'm building for someone else first thing I did was enable the freshrpms repo by installing their release package I then configured freshrpms for Smart, another package I first installed I then asked Smart to download the dkms package and the Nvidia driver for my card, which is an older card so I picked the .96 version which was appropriate Smart then decides that I need a new kernel, the xen kernel, and the regular kernel-devel but the i586 arch - I let this go ahead, and needless to say it didn't work after a reboot I next removed the xen kernel and the i586-devel and installed the correct i686-devel for my installed kernel - If I remember right, that uninstalled the nvidia driver and dkms and I permitted that Then I reinstalled dkms and the nvidia driver Then I rebooted again, and the nvidia driver got detected and dkms built the kernel module, and when the machine came up, the nvidia driver was running Then I ran a general update which pulled in tons of packages, over 400 mb's worth including a new kernel When finished, I rebooted to get the new kernel, and again, on boot-up, dkms detected the new kernel and built the kernel-module for it on-the-fly, and when the machine came fully up, the nvidia driver was running It really does work -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD
