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) just put the following lines into /etc/rc.local : if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then echo "installing NVIDIA kernel module. This takes some time." /root/NVIDIA.run --no-network -s -K -n fi This obviously assumes that the package you downloaded from the NVIDIA site is made executable, and sym-linked or copied to /root/NVIDIA.run I've been using this for quite some time. HTH, Kay