CentOS - Jul 2008 - FW: Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2 (Akemi)

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
Of Akemi Yagi
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:47 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS
5.2

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:29 AM, John <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I have not done this for a while but you can automate the installation of
the proprietary Nvidia driver by providing appropriate flags.  The following
command worked when I tested:

sh ./NVIDIAxxxxx.run  -a -q -N --ui=none

Others posted this:

sh ./NVIDIAxxxxx.run --no-network -s -K -n

Once you find the way to get the installalation working without human
intervention, you can put it in a place like /etc/rc.local :

if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then
    echo "Installing the proprietary NVIDIA driver."
    /full/path/to/ NVIDIAxxxxx.run --no-network -s -K -n fi

This will compile and install the driver each time the kernel is updated.

Akemi
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Hi Akemi, this looks like a good option to put into the nvidia how to. Any
further ideas?
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On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:59 PM, John <jses27 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
> Of Akemi Yagi
> Once you find the way to get the installalation working without human
> intervention, you can put it in a place like /etc/rc.local :
>
> if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then
>    echo "Installing the proprietary NVIDIA driver."
>    /full/path/to/ NVIDIAxxxxx.run --no-network -s -K -n fi
>
> This will compile and install the driver each time the kernel is updated.
>
> Akemi
>
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> Hi Akemi, this looks like a good option to put into the nvidia how to. Any
> further ideas?
Hi John,

If I remember correctly, Karanbir said he was using the same nvidia.ko
file over several generations (?) of kernels just by copying it.
However, we need to ask him for the details.

Akemi