On Tuesday March 25 2008 12:37:07 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > All very well and no doubt true Claude. But when I installed > this dkms thing, it came with zero docs, and several questions > posted here were ignored. Now, its entirely possible that > dkms is smarter than the script I wrote, but without any setup > insructions its just not worth the storage space. So I wrote > my own, called at the end of rc.local: I remember your situation. Yours is a bit different than most users and thus, hard for me to comment on. You run as root and you roll your own kernels, for starters - whether the DKMS script and the nVidia packages from freshrpms were designed, or can take advantage of every nuance in your environment is impossible for me to say. I was reacting to the posters declaiming about being stuck having to roll his own modules after every kernel update. If I missed any nuance in his situtation, I apologize. For many users, the scenario as I described it works just fine. I'm going on three years on six different machines with very different hardware in this mode, with almost zero problems except the one time I noted. I've never had to 'setup' DKMS. I simply install the nVidia driver from freshrpms, and that request pulls DKMS as a dependency or whatever, and after that, it just works. So, my experience has been far different than yours. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
