I wish NVIDIA would support yum. NVidia, are you listening? Keeping the kernel updated with the real nvidia driver is a pain, but needed is you run the real nvidia driver (like we do). For those not experienced with RHEL and nvidia kernel modules, when you install a new kernel, you have to run the nvidia installer after the system boots under the new kernel to build the nvidia module for that kernel. Then a reboot gets it all working again. Imagine doing that for 25 engineering workstations in a dept, and you'll get the idea. Yum works great if you can live with the default 'nv' driver.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 12:40 PM To: Mark Hahn Cc: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Repenting for sins against Dell (on good Friday, no less) Mark Hahn wrote: >> It's useful because it will automatically build and install existing >> kernel modules for newly-installed kernels. Many vendors ship drivers >> as RPMs separate from the kernel, so they won't get updated when the >> kernel is updated unless you use something like dkms. > > interesting. the distro-based approach is that when you update your > kernel, the package manager will naturally also update any packages > which are dependent on the kernel version. that certainly works fine > if you're using normal (binary, precompiled) packages. I guess the > issue with rebuilding packages is that they are, in some sense, > version-flexible (can be rebuilt for new kernels). the issue, though > is that you don't know whether the package will still build for the > new kernel until you try - it might have dependencies on a symbol that > gets removed from the kernel update, for instance. Right, although distributions like RHEL do a good job of keeping the kernel unchanged from an API perspective within a given release. -- -- Skylar Thompson (sky...@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
