From 58cb88a77d84ff5a65ebec5e35ffd7b19afafcb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladislav Yarmak Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 23:36:41 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] linux: readme: add notes about dkms --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 16a57ba..1cc8480 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ Examples are provided for driver version 430.34. All commands are runned as root ### Install driver +Make sure you have kernel headers and compiler installed before running Nvidia driver installer. Kernel headers and compiler are required to build nvidia kernel module. Recommended way to do this is to install `dkms` package, if it is available in your distro. This way `dkms` package will pull all required dependencies to allow building kernel modules and kernel module builds will be automated in a reliable fashion. + ```bash mkdir /opt/nvidia && cd /opt/nvidia wget https://international.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/430.34/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.34.run