Feature request nvidia installer (bug report?)
 

Hello List,

the nvidia installer has the option:

--no-kernel-module

This should do everything but do not install the kernel module. Currently it
checks if the module is present and stops working.
This is wrong!

Example:

If you have an automaticall update running which updates MESA,
the /usr/include/* files will be overwritten, and the ldconfig sets
libGL to the mesa version.

A user works on the maschine. It is not necessary to logout the
user and go telinit 3 only to overwrite/remove the Mesa installations.

You can have for example a simple trigger rpm,

%triggerin

sh /opt/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run --no-kernel-module

which afterwards overwrites the Mesa settings.

So my feature request, or maybe its already a bug is:

When --no-kernel-module is given

- dont check for kernel module
- install the userspace components

regards,

Martin

Re: Feature request nvidia installer (bug report?)
 

Hello,

This request seems to be very common.


http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=85407
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68248

From a system administration point of view, this
feature would be really usefull.

Martin

Re: Feature request nvidia installer (bug report?)
 

The nvidia-installer is opensourced you know. It's possible to modify it ourselves, send it to them and hope they'll implement it in the official driver.

Re: Feature request nvidia installer (bug report?)
 

Is it?

I didnt know, and was already thinking about that, then
I saw that the installer is a binary...

Where to get the source code for the installer?
A bit googeling didnt show anything usefull.....

regards,

Martin

Re: Feature request nvidia installer (bug report?)
 

From the README :