auto install of nvidia driver
Brian Gaynor
briang at pmccorp.com
Mon Jul 9 18:37:24 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
DKMS works great for me, no configuration necessary. Just install the
DKMS rpms and the nVidia driver from freshrpms. I also use the DKMS
aware wireless driver and everything gets handle automatically at boot.
- Brian
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