--- On Wed, 10/21/09, John Jasen <[email protected]> wrote: 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.
nvconfig is your friend HP supplies nvidia drivers as RPMS for RHEL, and they include a script /etc/init.d/nvconfig. At startup, this script makes sure the current kernel has an nvidia module. If it doesn't find one, it installs the kernel module. For example: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=MTX-4c78a92d8d3f4344aed8e54288&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN There are other RPM repos for nvidia drivers. They likely take the same approach - have an init.d check to see if you need the nvidia modules configured for a new kernel. The following may be useful: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/NVIDIA_drivers_with_Red_Hat_Linux.html Bottom line : Use the HP RPMs, or extract the /etc/init.d/nvconfig script from them.
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