[PlanetCCRMA] help with planetccrma FC5 install

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 12 August 2006 18:25, Martin Dupras wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I do have the latest yum from the planetccrma repository, and as far as I
> can tell I do have the proper kernel sources, i.e. they show up in
> /usr/src/kernels. Or am I missing something?

If you installed the kernel-devel package for the latest planetccrma kernel 
you should be ok.
>
> Would it be worth removing all the kernels and kernels sources manually
> (with rpm, perhaps) then regetting the latest planetccrma kernel and
> sources? Or is there a chance that may break something?

I wouldn't go removing anything, and reinstalling. I've never had to deal with 
Nvidia drivers, but you should have all you need there. Perhaps Fernando will 
be around later on, and with his years of experience will be able to guide 
you into getting the Nvidia drivers working with the ccrma kernel.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - martin

Apologies for not being able to help any further.

Nigel.


>
> On 12/08/06, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 August 2006 14:53, Martin Dupras wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble with a brand new installation of planetccrma FC5 on
> > > a brand new HP Pavilion dv8263ea, core duo t2400, 1Gb of ram,nvidia
> >
> > geforce
> >
> > > go 7400.
> > >
> > > Any help with any of the following problems would be greatly
> >
> > appreciated!
> >
> > > I've got kernel 2.6.16-1.2080.16.rrt.rhfc5.ccrmasmp.
> > >
> > > 1) i can only boot with acpi=off in the command line. I installed the
> >
> > acpi
> >
> > > packages but that doesn't seem to solve the problem.
> > >
> > > 2) i've got an internal intel 3945abg wireless card built in. To get it
> >
> > to
> >
> > > work, I apparently need ndiswrapper. I compiled ndiswrapper from the
> > > sources (works) but modprobe ndiswrapper gives:
> > >
> > > "FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.16-
> > > 1.2080.16.rrt.rhfc5.ccrmasmp/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module
> >
> > format."
> >
> > > 3) Can't install the NVIDIA driver because it appears to not find the
> > > kernel sources
> >
> > Hi Martin. You should just need the kernel-devel package which will
> > provide
> > the kernel headers. Make sure it matches the ccrma kernel you're using.
> >
> > Someone I saw had problems getting the kernel-devel package for the ccrma
> > kernel, as, a "yum install kernel-devel" was trying to get a kernel-devel
> > package for the Fedora kernel. I don't have that problem as I use both
> > Yum,
> > and Apt on FC5. Apt for Fedora core, updates, and extras repos, and Yum
> > just
> > for the planetccrma ones. If you have problems, a workaround would be to
> > temporarily set, Fedora core, updates, and extras repos to "Enabled=0"
> > (not
> > sure which one is responsible for the kernel-devel package), then you
> > should
> > only get the option of the kernel-devel package from planetccrma.
> >
> > Another thing you may have missed from Fernando's posts.  A yum update
> > should
> > have got you a new version of Yum from planetccrma. This is patched to
> > allow
> > Yum to install older kernels, but you need to add a line to
> > /etc/yum.conf, as
> > below.
> >
> > oldpackage=1
> >
> > > I've been banging my head for a week trying to solve these problems,
> > > but
> >
> > I
> >
> > > seem to be getting nowhere.
> > >
> > > Any help much, much appreciated!
> > >
> > > - martin
> >
> > Sorry I can't help with the other problems, nor with the Nvidia driver
> > itself,
> > as my graphics are Cyberbladei1, and Rage128 on my 2 machines.
> >
> > All the best.
> >
> > Nigel.
> >
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