On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:58 AM, bgschaid_lists@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:18:15 +0100
"KS" == Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
KS> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or
work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows
is different I think.
when you tried it, what problem did you have ?
It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ...
KS> what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers
KS> working for me here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not
KS> downloaded a newer one, so whatever was on my machine from
KS> months back, just rebuilt and works.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but as we're talking about rebuilding
the drivers for new kernels:
- has anyone written
- or is aware
of such a solution:
a script that during booting
- checks whether the nVidia-driver is present
- rebuilds it unattended, if it is not
so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after
kernel-updates.
I'm aware that rebuilding kernel-modules without human supervision is
not a good idea, but rebuilding the graphics-driver on a number of
workstations after each kernel-update is annoying (especially if you
can't do it on all of them at the same time, because people are
... working on them)
I know, that the script should not be hard to write, but I don't want
to duplicate any work that has been done before (especially if there
is a "standard"-way of doing this, which I was to stupid to find)
Dell has done it using DKMS. If you install an nvidia driver (and
other drivers too) from their site, it installs a DKMS enabled
package that rebuilds itself for any new kernel.
It mostly works. I've never tried installing one of these on a
computer that was not a Dell.
Tony Schreiner
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