On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Claude Jones wrote: >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.... > Of course it does, but how did I get to the state of running a 2.6.22 kernel (which scheduler sucks dead toads through soda straws BTW & thanks to Joanne for that phrase) without those files being installed? I'll leave that answer for the younger whippersnappers here to figure out... >-- >Claude (OF) Jones >Brunswick, MD -- 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) Friction is a drag.
