NVIDIA and DKMS

Tue Nov 14 12:04:15 UTC 2006

On Mo, 2006-11-13 at 22:22 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:

> This is not intended to throw gasoline on the recent pis_ing contest - I've 
> purposefully stayed out of that. BUT, I'm curious. Is there a downside to 
> DKMS? Why is it not being pushed more agressively? It seems to work quite 
> well. 
> -- 

I've installed the ipw3945 and ati-driver (dkms)packages from freshrpms
and after the 2849-kernel-upgrade both drivers compiled and worked right
away.
By now I am very impressed by dkms, don't know whether a 2.6.18 to
2.6.19 upgrade would work as well.

Just my 2 cents
Chris