[CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2

[John]

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of MHR
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS
5.2

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Bernhard Gschaider
<bgschaid_lists at ice-sf.at> wrote:
>
> Hi John!
>
> As I understand it the nvidia-x11-drv IS the nvidia.com-driver just 
> repackaged in such a way that it automatically recompiles itself if a 
> new kernel is installed. For the vanilla-nvidia-drivers I had to write 
> a script for that and the number of workstation here is not big enough 
> that it justifies that (I did that, but it never worked 100% and 
> testing a boot time script is a pain in the a##) Obviously the script 
> in the RPM-package doesn't know how to behave during an upgrade (let's 
> see how it fares when the first 5.2-kernel-update comes along)
>

I may be mistaken on this, but IIRC, the driver does not recompile itself
automatically at all.  I used dkms once a great many kernels ago, and the
driver has been recompiled for me for every single update since then (4.4, I
think), including my update to 5.2.  I didn't see any reference to this in
this thread at all, so I'm assuming that you are not using dkms.

For the person who uninstalled, updated and reinstalled the driver, I didn't
see any mention of a recompile - did you do that?

Now, if your driver doesn't work after an explicit recompile, that's a
different problem.

Mhr
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Yes, for DKMS users it should auto recompile on Kernel Upgrade. For users of
the Proprietary Nvidia Driver it will not. You will have to manually
recompile it.

JohnStanley

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