On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:29 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:

>> The dkms-based packages in RPMforge have been deprecated in favor of
>> kmod-based packages offered by the ELRepo Project.  For the nvidia
>> drivers, please see:
>>
>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>>
>> Working just fine for me and others under RHEL5.
>
> Akemi,
>
> I finally gathered enough courage to install kmod-nvidia from elrepo.
> What a difference this new driver makes! No more lockups in full-screen
> video mode. Thanks very much.
>
> --Doc

Thanks for reporting back. Great to learn things are working for you.

The nvidia driver should survive kernel updates silently. Because
there is no recompilation involved (kABI-tracking is the keyword), you
do not need development software such as gcc. That's another major
difference from the dkms method.

Akemi

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