Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

[Bill Mullen]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:21:34 -0400,
Thomas Charron wrote:

>   Basically, the nvidia kernel module for the binary driver is an
> 'adapter' to the binary library.  As a kernel is updated, the nvidia
> wrapper needs to be recompiled to provide a module for that new kernel
> version.  If you're using a distro that provides the nvidia binary
> driver, and you never make a new kernel yourself, then you're more
> then likely golden.

If your distro provides the dkms system, like Mandriva does, then the
kernel module for nvidia - or lirc, or hsfmodem, or several others -
will be auto-compiled on the first boot to any new kernel if a binary
module is not found for that kernel. You need to have the kernel-source
or kernel-devel (which is just enough of the kernel-source to compile
modules) package for that particular kernel installed, of course, but
it has worked very nicely for me. YMMV.

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Bill Mullen
RLU #270075