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