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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of MHR
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:41 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS
5.2
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Bernhard Gschaider
<bgschaid_lists@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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Yes, for DKMS users it should auto recompile on Kernel Upgrade. For users of
the Proprietary Nvidia Driver it will not. You will have to manually
recompile it.
JohnStanley
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