On Tuesday July 10 2007 2:06:26 am Phil Meyer wrote: > It most certainly will not work, and cannot possibly work for the > original poster, who most plainly wrote that is is using a non Fedora > kernel. > > For those not paying attention............ another young whippersnapper! It did occur to me that Gene uses custom kernels, but only after the fact, and only from memory as I hadn't followed the whole thread. I was simply responding to his interchange with Brian: ***************** >DKMS works great for me, no configuration necessary. Just install the >DKMS rpms and the nVidia driver from freshrpms. I also use the DKMS >aware wireless driver and everything gets handle automatically at boot. > >- Brian Such info was not made available when I asked about dkms ***************** I don't really know exactly how dkms is written - are you sure this script will only work with Fedora kernels? I know it's used by other distros because I learned of it over on the PCLinuxOS list over a year ago. If you install custom kernels, can you get the kernel-devel and kernel-headers packages for same? If so, would dkms not work in that situation? I'm not challenging what you said - I'd just like to know how it works. Looking at Akemi's suggestion, it appears that he's checking the kernel at boot-up and running the nvidia installation if it detects a new kernel, but I don't fully understand the code and could certainly have that wrong, but, if so - doesn't running the nvidia installation file require the devel and headers too? Questions, questions.... -- Claude (OF) Jones Brunswick, MD
