[PlanetCCRMA] nvidia drivers

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:11 -0700, Brad Fuller wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:35 -0700, Brad Fuller wrote:
> > > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: 
> > > > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 11:48 -0700, menno wrote:
> > > > > Hello
> > > > > i've come to the point where the nvidiadrivers can be installed.( kernel =
> > > > > 2.6.14-0.10.rrt.rhfc4.ccrmasmp.)
> > > > > When searching in this forum i found the same question. I understand i need
> > > > > the source of this kernel
> > > > > 
> > > > >         
> > > > > > Hi Joe. The URL to be added to /etc/apt/sources.list  is.
> > > > > > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/SRPMS/
> > > > > >           
> > > > > so i entered this URL in /etc/apt/sources.list and ran Synaptic. There was
> > > > > an error:
> > > > >   
> > > > > Type 'http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/SRPMS/' is not
> > > > > known in on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
> > > > > 
> > > > > How should i proceed? My goal is to get twinview running.
> > > > >         
> > > > First thing to try is to install the kernel-devel package that matches
> > > > the kernel you have installed, that would be:
> > > > 
> > > >   apt-get install kernel-smp-devel#2.6.14-0.10.rrt.rhfc4.ccrma
> > > > 
> > > > That should be enough for the Nvidia installer. But I'm not sure how
> > > > well those drivers work with the realtime preemption enabled kernels. 
> > > > 
> > > >       
> > > I need to install the source for 2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc3.ccrma and I
> > > don't see the source nor the devel packages using yum. I see lots of
> > > alsa modules! But no devel nor source. Why would that be? And, how can
> > > I get them?
> > > What could I be doing wrong?
> > >     
> > 
> > Nothing, that kernel predates the time when -devel packages started to
> > be built. For that kernel the kernel headers should be
> > in /lib/modules/`unamne -r`/build/, perhaps the nvidia drivers can be
> > convinced to look there. Otherwise you have to manually download the
> > source rpm (.src.rpm) for that kernel and build a patched source tree -
> > instructions for that are available in the fc4 release notes...
> >   
> Thanks, but I'm not doing anything with nvidia -- I just hijacked this
> thread because it was relevant!
> 
> I'm running fc3
> 
> I already looked in that dir and the headers were in there, but that's
> all that's there. I needed the source.
> 
> But.... Before I sent this msg, I manually downloaded the src rpm and
> installed but still I don't see any source in that directory. I
> couldn't find another directory that the rpm  would have installed to.
> Do you know where can I look?

A .src.rpm... long story... you need to do part of the build process for
packages to get a complete tree (hint, you get stuff unpacked
in /usr/src/redhat/*). 

See this:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html

and follow instructions in the "kernel" section of the packages. 
-- Fernando