Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

[Thomas Charron]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Bill Mullen <moon at lunarhub.com> wrote:
> 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.

  Yea, there are a bunch of different systems that will do this sort
of thing.  My gentoo system compiles it all anyway, and Kubuntu just
pulls them from resitricted drivers.  But a lot of the hassle that
existed previously for tainting drivers has been taken care of by
distributions.

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-- Thomas