On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:29 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> The dkms-based packages in RPMforge have been deprecated in favor of >> kmod-based packages offered by the ELRepo Project. For the nvidia >> drivers, please see: >> >> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia >> >> Working just fine for me and others under RHEL5. > > Akemi, > > I finally gathered enough courage to install kmod-nvidia from elrepo. > What a difference this new driver makes! No more lockups in full-screen > video mode. Thanks very much. > > --Doc Thanks for reporting back. Great to learn things are working for you. The nvidia driver should survive kernel updates silently. Because there is no recompilation involved (kABI-tracking is the keyword), you do not need development software such as gcc. That's another major difference from the dkms method. Akemi _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
