[CentOS] moderate rant un updates

Thu Mar 14 15:03:43 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Sorry, clicked "send" too soon.
>
> Am 14.03.2013 15:37, schrieb Tilman Schmidt:
>> Am 14.03.2013 15:17, schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us:
>>> On a related note, does anyone have a link to a howto build the NVidia
>>> proprietary driver on a kernel that's *not* running, so we could
>>> prebuild
>>> it before the reboot? I see there are options in the script, but no
>>> examples.
>>
>> No link, but while I was still using the proprietary driver I did it
>> like this:
>>
>> ${NVDRV}.run -sKk ${KERNELRELEASE}
>
> That was from a kernel install script that had previously set
> ${KERNELRELEASE} to the name of the module directory and
> ${NVDRV} to the base name of the nVidia installer. So the
> actual command would look something like this:
>
> ~/Download/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.06.run -sKk 2.6.37.6-24-desktop
>
> HTH

It does, indeed. Thanks a lot, Tillman, that's what I needed (I'll check
to make sure it doesn't replace xorg.conf - a lot of us need the
proprietary driver because we use two monitors, and *bleah* nouveau
doesn't support twinview).

       mark