nvidia vs kmod-nvidia

[David Timms]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:22:24 +0800
> Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> 
>> There is...  You can find it at http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
>>
>> DKMS
> 
> Neat. Learn something every day.
And it 'just works'; just adds a short time during the bootup while the 
kernel interface is automatically recompiled. I think I can remember two 
updates when kernel has been updated, and I noticed during next boot 
some extra work being done by dkms. But the machine then showed the 
nvidia logo and the new kernel is just working.

The nvidia driver is also packaged by freshrpms.net and the 
nvidia-x11-drv requires dkms {extras}, so that it's really easy to get 
this installed, and for the updated nvidia driver to just work after new 
kernel packages have been released {just this morning now onto nvidia's 
current driver via nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9631-1.fc6, thanks Matthias}.

dkms is also used by other packages such lirc, ntfs, wireless drivers etc.

DaveT.