[PlanetCCRMA] Re: Nvidia driver and FC5 smp

[Matt Barber]

Will do when I get back in town after Monday (I have no access to my
computer from here, but it amounts to a very simple change to the spec,
mostly to remove dependencies on specific fedora kernels).

M


On 6/20/06, Hector Centeno-Garcia <h.centeno at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install the latest nvidia driver using FC5 and CCRMA edge
> smp-kernel. I installed the kernel-devel package and set the kernel
> source for the nvidia installer and after compiling it complains that
> the nvidia module is not in the right format (as if the kernel headers
> were not the right version, and they seem to be!). I tried with the
> CCRMA edge single processor kernel and the nvidia module compiled and
> installed without problems but at reboot X couldn't find the module.
>
> Question for Matt Barber: how did you rebuild the livna package? would
> you mind posting a how-to? I used to do it in the Debian world but I
> still find RPMs and Fedora a little bit confusing.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Hector
>
>
> Matt Barber wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I haven't done it on FC4, but on FC5, the only way (and probably the
> > best way) I could get it to work was to rebuild the livna SRPM.  I
> > don't see why you couldn't do this in FC4 (unless there's a big
> > problem somewhere), and then at least you'd have an RPM.  I'm not
> > sure, but I think this might allow you to have nvidia drivers
> > installed for multiple kernels (which was tough with the nvidia
> > installation app).
> >
> >
>
>
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