Upgrade ones graphics drivs

[Basil Chupin]

On 17/04/13 21:31, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 17/04/13 20:09, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>> For example, a couple of days ago my kernel was upgraded to 3.8.7-1
>>>> and as a result I had to recompile the latest nVidia driver,
>>>> 310.44,
>>>> to match it. It took me all of some 3 minutes to be up and running
>>>> again with the recompiled driver.
>>> Don't you have dkms? When I was playing with the latest driver from
>>> the nvidia site it offered to register with dkms which would mean
>>> that you don't have to manually recompile the nvidia module but it
>>> is done automatically when you install a new kernel.
>> I do have dkms but I don't have it installed.
>>
>> I have never had it installed, and have never heard of it :-) .
>>
>> Are you suggesting that I ought to install it and break a habit of
>> many years of compiling the driver manually? :-)
>>
>> If your answer is YES then I shall do so without hesitation.
> The answer is yes, of course. Unless you really like your old habit. :)

dkms installed.

The only reservation I hava about it is that it was developed by Dell 
obviously to meet some requirement of Dell's. But we'll see what happens 
next.....

> And BTW, dkms also handles the module compilation of virtualbox (if you
> have that in use).

No, I don't have VB  installed. Haven't yet found a real need for it 
(even though I have played around with it some time ago).

BC

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