On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
Automagically? Care to elaborate on that? Sounds like a useful mechanism to me.
it's very useful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
$ man dkms $ sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install nvidia-x11-drv $ sudo reboot ... profit!
once you have done this, DKMS will rebuild the nvidia driver module for you the first time you boot a new kernel. provided the module builds without problems, you won't have to think about it any more.
-steve
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Steve Huff Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
Automagically? Care to elaborate on that? Sounds like a useful mechanism to me.
it's very useful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
$ man dkms $ sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install nvidia-x11-drv $ sudo reboot ... profit!
once you have done this, DKMS will rebuild the nvidia driver module for you the first time you boot a new kernel. provided the module builds without problems, you won't have to think about it any more.
Nice, thanks! I'll try this out on a machine.
On a related sidetrack; is there any difference between the proprietary Nvidia-drivers and the ones from eg rpmforge? Specifically, we use the proprietary Nvidia drivers on our dozen or so course computers because they support stereo-3D. When our former *nix-admin set this up years ago, there weren't anything else to use than the proprietary drivers. Hence my question.
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Sorin Srbu -
Steve Huff