init problem with Intrepid

[Karl Larsen]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>> Error: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module, the kernel is not proper.
>>
>> Then it stopped and it said to read the error file in /var/log/ which I
>> did and it did have a big problem with the Intrepid kernel.
>>     
>
> That probably means it didn't understand Ubuntu's naming standard for the
> kernel headers (virtualbox has this problem).  Perhaps that can be solved
> by installing the dkms package, as that works for virtualbox.
>   
Hi and if others are having troubles with the Intrepid kernel that may 
well what I ran into. What is dkms and what will it do? What are the 
side effects? I will Google dkms and try to learn.

Karl


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