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upgrading video cards...



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.



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