micheal wrote: ...
I may be daft, but for my ATI card, whenever I update my kernel from updates released it defautls to use the radeon driver. I just update the kernel-module from livna manually.
I don't see why this would not work for nVidia.
It does, it's just not what I want.
I want a delayed installation of the kernel until the graphics module is available.
My users can't use their machine for anything unless the 3D driver is loaded. They can't manually install the graphics driver.
Anyway, I've added a /etc/init.d script that checks if the nvidia kernel module exists.
If it doesn't, it reinstalls the nvidia driver.
I've put the driver on an NFS share, with a symlink at /server1/nvidia/latest.x86. The script is shown below.
Mogens
#!/bin/sh # # nvidia: Install nvidia driver if module doesn't exist. # # chkconfig: 5 90 10 # description: Install nvidia driver if module doesn't exist. # #
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
start() { if [ -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then echo 'Nvidia module already exists.' else echo 'Nvidia module does not exist; reinstalling nvidia driver. This will take a few minutes.' if [ -f /server1/nvidia/latest.x86 ]; then cp /server1/nvidia/latest.x86 /tmp sh /tmp/latest.x86 -s --update --force-update echo 'A warning from the installer about something being altered can be ignored.' else echo '/server1/nvidia/latest.x86 does not exist' fi fi
}
stop() { true }
# See how we were called. case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart|reload) stop start ;; condrestart) ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestart}" exit 1 esac
exit 0