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On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 21:36 -0500, David Kramer wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: > > David Kramer wrote: > >> Dan Ritter wrote: > >>> - NVidia has proprietary drivers... > >> It's worth mentioning, though, that there is a mechanism for recompiling > >> the proprietary driver for any given kernel, so you're never stuck > >> waiting for someone else to do so (I think it's called dkms). > > > > I've been using Envy: > > http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html > > > > to do this on Ubuntu. Still a pain to have to do this on every kernel > > upgrade. I'll be glad when the open drivers catch up. > > > > I see Envy supports ATI drivers too now. > > > > -Tom > > > > The thing I like about dkms is that it happens automagically. When a > new kernel is installed, dkms recompiles the kernel for it with no user > intervention. For the record, same thing with akmods. -- Jarod Wilson jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
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