On Monday 09 July 2007, Brian Gaynor wrote: >On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Attached is a script I've been running for about a month, and which >> autoinstalls the nvidia driver when booting to a new kernel, something I >> do fairly frequently such as to the 2.6.22 I just built. This assumes the >> latest NVIDIA-*.run file is resident in your root directory but it could >> live anywhere by editing the script. You'll also need to edit it when you >> have downloaded an even newer version. >> >> This to me was easier than trying to figure out the documentless dkms >> installer. >> >> I run it from rc.local with this line: >> /root/bin/install-nvidia >> >> Now. if I had a clue, which I don't, I'd redirect another file to this >> such that all the keyboard responses it needs are also automated. > >DKMS works great for me, no configuration necessary. Just install the >DKMS rpms and the nVidia driver from freshrpms. I also use the DKMS >aware wireless driver and everything gets handle automatically at boot. > >- Brian Such info was not made available when I asked about dkms, on this list. I installed it so it was in the inti.d dir, but was never enough to generate a peep during the bootups. Thanks Brian. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. -- Fred Allen [Also attributed to S. Clay Wilson. Ed.] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
