FWIW, I don't use DKMS but this homegrown script instead. I put whatever version of the driver I want to deploy (currently NVIDIA- Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run) in a network accessible location and create a link named NVIDIA-Linux-x86-latest to it. The script then handles the rest.
Alfred
#!/bin/sh # # This script checks to ensure that the NVIDIA driver has been # installed (it's needed for every new kernel)
# chkconfig: 345 50 98 # description: Runs the NVIDIA installer if needed
# Source function library. . /etc/init.d/functions
script=/tmp/nvidia-config-$$.sh installer=/network/path/to/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-latest
# Function to check if NVIDIA card is present on this system nvidia_card_present() { /sbin/lspci | grep -qi nvidia return $? }
# Function to check if NVIDIA kernel module has been installed nvidia_module_installed() { if [ -r /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then return 0 else return 1 fi }
# See how we were called. case "$1" in start|restart) if nvidia_card_present; then if nvidia_module_installed; then action "Configuring NVIDIA driver: " /bin/true else if [ -x $installer ]; then /bin/echo "#!/bin/sh" > $script /bin/echo "$installer -s -X &> /tmp/nvidia-install-$$.log 2>&1" >> $script /bin/chmod +x $script action "Configuring NVIDIA driver: " $script /bin/rm -f $script else action "Configuring NVIDIA driver: " /bin/false fi fi else action "Configuring NVIDIA driver: " /bin/true fi ;;
stop) # Nothing to do ;;
status) if nvidia_card_present; then if nvidia_module_installed; then /bin/echo "The NVIDIA driver has been installed successfully" else /bin/echo "The NVIDIA driver has not been installed successfully" fi else /bin/echo "The NVIDIA driver is not required on this system" fi ;;
*) /bin/echo "Usage: `basename "$0"` {start|stop|status|restart}" exit 1 esac
exit 0