>>>>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:40:38 -0700 >>>>> "M" == MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: M> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Bernhard Gschaider M> <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) >> M> I may be mistaken on this, but IIRC, the driver does not M> recompile itself automatically at all. I used dkms once a M> great many kernels ago, and the driver has been recompiled for M> me for every single update since then (4.4, I think), including M> my update to 5.2. I didn't see any reference to this in this M> thread at all, so I'm assuming that you are not using dkms. I didn't mention it, but the package recompiles the driver using DKMS. I'm fully aware, that binary-only-packages won't work M> For the person who uninstalled, updated and reinstalled the M> driver, I didn't see any mention of a recompile - did you do M> that? As said above: DKMS should take care of that - and it always did M> Now, if your driver doesn't work after an explicit recompile, M> that's a different problem.