This has the feel of hackery, but we wrote an init.d script which checks to see if the kernel module exists for the running kernel, and if not, it runs the NVIDIA installer in unattended mode. If you want the script to see how we accomplished it, let me know.
I believe there are also third party YUM repositories (livna, rpmfusion) which package the NVIDIA module and theoretically should cause it to update along with the kernel, but those repositories tend to contain various software which runs afoul of my employer's software restrictions. -- Brian Ruppert > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of John Jasen > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:15 PM > To: LOPSA Technical Discussions > Subject: [lopsa-tech] RHEL Linux, dkms and nvidia drivers > > > Our problem: (well, to start) > > We have a bunch of linux workstations with NVIDIA cards and drivers > from > the NVIDIA tarballs. A kernel upgrade will not have the NVIDIA drivers, > usually resulting in the system failing out to a console login -- which > has proven very distressing to our users. > > In theory, dkms can help us out with this, but the guys here who've > been > trying to make it work have gone grey and bald respectively, but > otherwise no progress. > > Does anyone have a working DKMS config for this, or perhaps a better > solution? > > -- > -- John E. Jasen ([email protected]) > -- No one will sorrow for me when I die, because those who would > -- are dead already. -- Lan Mandragoran, The Wheel of Time, New Spring > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
