On Monday 09 July 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote: >On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:34:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 09 July 2007, Brian Millett wrote: >>>Gene Heskett escribío: >>>> 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. > >Provided that the package you downloaded from the NVIDIA site >is made executable, and sym-linked or copied to /root/NVIDIA.run, >you can place these lines in /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 hint found on a CentOS mailing list) > >Akemi Thanks again Akemi, this worked very well when I rebooted to 2.6.22 + Con K's latest scheduler patch and the ftdi_regr.patch just now. -- 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) Some of my readers ask me what a "Serial Port" is. The answer is: I don't know. Is it some kind of wine you have with breakfast? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
