On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Joe Landman wrote:
Sellers, William A. (LARC-D205)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote:
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.
Hi William
It is fairly easy to automate the installation of this (not necessarily
using yum, though if you really want the nVidia drivers as an RPM package, by
all means, it is possible ... and then yum will work).
The Nvidia drivers used to be in livna. They still appear to be in
rpm-fusion (for at least F10). Can't you use that?
rgb
Is this of interest for Cuda/Nvidia users? If so, what ABIs, and distros?
Joe
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.
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