On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 19:28:17 ACST Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
Op woensdag 12 juli 2017 11:15:31 CEST schreef Sudhir Anand:
I have installed DKMS package. When installing the Nvidia driver, there was an option to register it with DKMS. There was a message that if the kernel is updated in future, Nvidia module will be automatically updated.
Can anyone with experience of DKMS and Nvidia confirm if this happens automatically or how this works? I have no experience of it.
Regards.
Yes. At the time I did it worked like this: new kernel -> reboot -> dkms rebuilds -> reboot done.
But it should be possible to have dkms do this immediately after updating the kernel.
Yes - it Just Works (TM). :) VirtualBox can use the same mechanism to update its modules (if you’re using the Oracle version rather than the openSuSE repo version), but there is a little bit of config needed (or at least there was, back when I first installed it). The only time you’ll run into trouble is if the kernel structures change and break compatibility with the installed version of the nvidia driver, in which case you’ll need a patch for your current driver, or an updated version. There is one other caveat - sometimes system updates overwrite openGL or x.org files that the nvidia driver depends on. This can break things in unpredictable ways, even if the module builds and installs correctly. I have, as a rule, re-installed the nvidia driver every time there is a major kde/ plasma update or any updates involving X or openGL/Mesa (which, for tumbleweed, is basically every time I run zypper dup). Of course, if you’re using the nvidia version from the openSuSE repos, in theory you don’t have to worry about any of that, but I’ve always preferred to use the nvidia version (mainly for historical reasons, I guess). Regards, Rodney. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org