The main advantage of a pre-loaded OS...

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 25 16:55:57 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:42:03AM -0500, William Park wrote:
> Can you post more detail on this?
> 
> When I install NVidia's binary driver, I simply do
>     ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.36.run
> and I don't touch kernel config, at all.

Well in that case, your kernel source must have been somewhere
/lib/modules/<version>/build/ links to.

Of course any sensible distrution would have packages for that driver
and install it in a controlled manner rather than overwriting random
files in the system.

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