On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_lists@ice-sf.at wrote:
Hi John!
As I understand it the nvidia-x11-drv IS the nvidia.com-driver just repackaged in such a way that it automatically recompiles itself if a new kernel is installed. For the vanilla-nvidia-drivers I had to write a script for that and the number of workstation here is not big enough that it justifies that (I did that, but it never worked 100% and testing a boot time script is a pain in the a##) Obviously the script in the RPM-package doesn't know how to behave during an upgrade (let's see how it fares when the first 5.2-kernel-update comes along)
I may be mistaken on this, but IIRC, the driver does not recompile itself automatically at all. I used dkms once a great many kernels ago, and the driver has been recompiled for me for every single update since then (4.4, I think), including my update to 5.2. I didn't see any reference to this in this thread at all, so I'm assuming that you are not using dkms.
For the person who uninstalled, updated and reinstalled the driver, I didn't see any mention of a recompile - did you do that?
Now, if your driver doesn't work after an explicit recompile, that's a different problem.
mhr