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It might also be good to write a tutorial showing how to install the NVIDIA drivers, for example.

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@bwarden I was just thinking that when you first posted this. Could you write the step by step commands and I can then take that and make a tutorial out of it.

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I could, but the installer detects whether you have supported hardware (I don't), so the resulting sequence is a bit different. I can give you that sequence anyway, at least as a head start.

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That would be great. I'll talk to you on Monday. Is the dev-utils bundle all I would need to be able to run make for this or are there other bundles needed to be able to compile the new kernel? I want to be able to define all the requirements as part of the tutorial to run this from start to finish.

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Ah, good point, we probably also need c-basic. Maybe I should include that in the bundle. I don't think we need dev-utils.

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Sample process:

1. Select and download the appropriate Linux 64-bit driver package from the NVIDIA site
2. Agree to the terms and download the driver package, noting the location where it was saved
3. Open a shell in the directory where the package was saved
4. Run the installer package (sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-XXX.XX.run)
   1. When prompted, register the driver with DKMS
   2. Continue with the installer until it uses DKMS to install the kernel module

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Ideally we'd get the installer to register/build the kernel modules, but not dump its libraries or other binaries into /usr. I'm playing around with installer options, and theoretically this should work, but it's not obeying all the options:

First extract the installer:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.25.run -x

Enter the directory (e.g. NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.25) and run the installer:
sudo ./nvidia-installer --no-nvidia-modprobe --no-distro-scripts --no-opengl-files --no-libglx-indirect --no-install-libglvnd --dkms -s

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Hi there. This sounds like it would make an interesting addition to our existing guide here:
https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/guides/maintenance/kernel-modules

@puneetse Given that you worked on the above kernel-modules doc, would you be willing/able to take on Brett's request to create a guide and install kernel-native-dkms and add the nvidia drivers?

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Yes, that's where it should go. Also, this command line for the installer looks better:
sudo ./nvidia-installer --no-nvidia-modprobe --no-distro-scripts --no-opengl-files --no-libglx-indirect --no-install-libglvnd --no-install-compat32-libs --dkms --ui=none
...although it still prompts whether to register with DKMS (which the arg --dkms is supposed to force)

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Hi @tpleavitt, @puneetse. Can you please give me a status update? I just need to know if someone's working on it. Thanks.

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@mvincerx Let me take a swing at it now that the meetup is over. I'll get with @bwarden next week and start on it.

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