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

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On

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Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:57 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

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Strangely enough, only the systems running an Amd cpu gives the screen artefacts. Go figure...

What the artifacts? I switched to the DKMS module in rpmforge and am running an AMD CPU. Only think I've noticed is a weird issue with the cursor in thunderbird, I don't know if that is nvidia related or not though. It is annoying and I don't recall it being there before I updated the driver.

Diagonal thin black lines originating from upper left corner for starters. Then if I open a gui, whatever sort, that window gets those lines too. Menus are unreadable because of this, but slightly more readable if I move the mouse pointer over the menu entry. The lines tend to go away for a short while if I log off and log on again. Weird thing is that the lines are always diagonal and tend to always originate from the upper left corner of whatever window.

This is with gnome mind you, and *supposedly* this one is the most stable of all the desktop environments. Haven't tried with KDE and xfce. Can't tell for sure if it's gnome or the Nvidia drivers specifically, but I'm leaning towards the drivers.

It's not a hardware issue, as I've run rhel3 on the same machines w/o any artifacts.

The hardware's two-three year old Asus mobo with a single-core AMD x64 and a rather feisty Nvidia Quadra gfx card. Don't have the exact details right now, but it should give a hint or two. All the P4-machines, as well as the i7-boxes, seem to work fine with dkms.