bgschaid_lists@ice-sf.at wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:18:15 +0100 "KS" == Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
KS> Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> Jerry Geis wrote: >>>> Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or >>>> work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows >>>> is different I think. >>>> >>> when you tried it, what problem did you have ? >> It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ... >> KS> what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers KS> working for me here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not KS> downloaded a newer one, so whatever was on my machine from KS> months back, just rebuilt and works.I know this is a bit off-topic, but as we're talking about rebuilding the drivers for new kernels:
- has anyone written
- or is aware
of such a solution:
a script that during booting
- checks whether the nVidia-driver is present
- rebuilds it unattended, if it is not
so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after kernel-updates.
I'm aware that rebuilding kernel-modules without human supervision is not a good idea, but rebuilding the graphics-driver on a number of workstations after each kernel-update is annoying (especially if you can't do it on all of them at the same time, because people are ... working on them)
I know, that the script should not be hard to write, but I don't want to duplicate any work that has been done before (especially if there is a "standard"-way of doing this, which I was to stupid to find)
just put the following lines into /etc/rc.local :
if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then echo "installing NVIDIA kernel module. This takes some time." /root/NVIDIA.run --no-network -s -K -n fi
This obviously assumes that the package you downloaded from the NVIDIA site is made executable, and sym-linked or copied to /root/NVIDIA.run
I've been using this for quite some time.
HTH,
Kay