Autodownload and install restricted content.

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Nov 3 15:49:33 CST 2004


On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:30:31AM -0800, Joe Crawford wrote:

> With the nvidia driver, it needs the kernel header files to compile
> the kernel interface, but that could just be listed as a dependancy.
> I've made a script on my system that recompiles the header whener it
> starts (the script could be improved by recompiling only if the kernel
> changes), so that if I upgrade my system to a new kernel, the driver
> still works.
> 
> I've heard ubuntu already has a way to manage the nvidia driver, so
> that might all be unnecessary.

Ubuntu already installs the kernel module by default.

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 - mdz



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