init problem with Intrepid

[Derek Broughton]

Karl Larsen wrote:

> 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.

"Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework"

Now you know about as much as me, and if you google it, you'll know more :-)
It is a kernel module compile-helper, and makes the recompile process just
a little more flexible afaict.  It'll only make a difference if the make
file you're using checks for the presence of DKMS.
-- 
derek