Kernel module packages, the dkms approach

Andre Costa andre.ocosta at terra.com.br
Sat Oct 21 17:43:14 CEST 2006


On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:32:52 +0200
Matthias Saou
<thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
wrote:

> Andre Costa wrote :
> 
> > I don't know how this voodoo works, but, hell, it works =) I just
> > upgraded kernel to 2.6.18-1.2200, did good old 'sudo smart install
> > nvidia-x11-drv' and... there it was, it just worked =)
> > 
> > So, thks a lot for making our life (a lot) easier with regards to
> > nvidia driver upgrades =)
> 
> Great! For FC6 it also "just works", and since it's the very latest
> driver which is compatible with aiglx, you can even easily get compiz
> working with all the wobbly shadowed windows eye candy!

Does AIGLX work with 877x drivers? I thought they only worked with beta
(9xxx) drivers...

BTW: NVIDIA released version 8776 to address an exploit.

Regards, and thanks again,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa


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