[PlanetCCRMA] re: stuck!! nvidia & ccrma -- FIXED!!

Michael Tiemann tiemann@redhat.com
Sat Jun 24 16:06:03 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 13:22 -0400, csynan wrote:
> FIXED!! 
> 
> if anyone is struggling with FC5 CCRMA kernel and manually installing
> nvidia drivers, read this:
> 
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68681
> 
> You MUST do all the steps on that page.  I tried taking short cuts and
> it did not work (see below).
> 
> Turns out SELinux was part of the problem, but I dont think that alone
> solved it.  
> 
> I think that even though NVIDIA installer compiled successfully
> without "xorg-x11-server-sdk", the nvidia drivers only worked once I
> installed that on my system.  strange but that was my experience.
> 
> turns out that persistence pays off... hopefully NVIDIA will fix their
> installer to make these changes in the future.
> 
> Well, thanks to Fernando and CCRMA folks for everything - after having
> to build alsa myself, it is really a treat to get it from the repo
> instead...

Is SE Linux no longer implicated.  We really, really want SE Linux to be
a general-purpose solution, so any bug reports we can fix we will fix!

M