On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:58 AM, bgschaid_lists at ice-sf.at wrote: > >>>>>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:18:15 +0100 >>>>>> "KS" == Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at 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) > Dell has done it using DKMS. If you install an nvidia driver (and other drivers too) from their site, it installs a DKMS enabled package that rebuilds itself for any new kernel. It mostly works. I've never tried installing one of these on a computer that was not a Dell. Tony Schreiner