advansys scsi == ouch

[John McBride]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 03:43, John McBride wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 02:27, John McBride wrote:
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>>>>There are workarounds, like the dkms stuff, but 
>>>>having used early versions of dkms for our nvidia cards, I'm very gun 
>>>>shy of dkms--lots of problems with it, at least for me.
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>>>I'm the person that's done the dkms package for the advansys driver. If
>>>you try it and have any problems I'd be very keen to get it fixed. Do
>>>you still use dkms for anything else (sounds like not)? If so, trying
>>>out the dkms build shouldn't cause any problems/conflicts for you. 
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>>I upgraded a FC1 box to FC2 and the dkms could not update the nvidia 
>>driver, leaving X hosed. When I tried to remove dkms with "rpm -e" it 
>>gave script errors at the end. I had to finally use "updatedb", "locate 
>>dkms", "rm -rf blah" and "rpm -e --noscripts" (I think) to remove the 
>>rest of dkms from the box and the rpm database.
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>Ouch. I can see your point there. How long ago was that? I've certainly
>not had any problems installing or removing dkms itself (I've been using
>it since dkms-1.10, and 2.0.0 came out this week). 
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>Paul.
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I'm sorry to say I'm not sure which version it was, I download it off 
the web on July 1st. though. I think I can find out and email you off 
list. Installing it this way (did not see it on the servers in my 
yum.conf) made it tough to auto update...I'm sure that's why it barfed 
in the upgrade.  We like it but my boss turned up his nose at the 
"/dell" directory, he thought it should be somewhere more FSB compliant, 
like "/opt/dell" or something (obviously neither of us are FSB gurus).

Thanks again,
John