On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:43:56 -0600, HD wrote: > Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: >>http://rpm.livna.org/~anvil/fedora/nvidia-driver-1.0.5328-0.lvn.15.src.rpm > Thanks.... but when I was looking before, I was looking for the > kernel-module-nvidia-driver rather then the scr :) Various parts of the upstream release are binary only and proprietary, therefore a binary "repackaging" of the NVidia self-extracting archive is a bit ethically "questionable", putting it mildly. Not that I'm judging other efforts (Axel), just stating that personally I wouldn't do it. In a perfect world, NVidia would officially release the full driver/glx SDK as GPL'd OSS, but I think we all know that's never going to happen. The Livna source RPM contains the original upstream release intact, and the "rebuild" extracts the contents to create an RPM locally (4 in fact, the driver module, the glx component, the glx devel package and a debug package), in addition to various %pre and &post scripts to set everything up properly and clean up. Rebuilding only takes a few seconds, but if you really want a binary only solution then stick with Axel Thimm's binaries at: http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/1/en/i386/RPMS.at-testing/ (also in "at-bleeding") Bear in mind, that if you do choose an "RPM binary-only solution", then every time you do a kernel update (and they're coming thick and fast recently) you will have to wait for Axel to release a new NVidia package, which won't be instantaneous. Also, if you run a custom kernel (maybe you need to recompile for certain driver support for a new piece of hardware) then you'll have no option but to rebuild using either the upstream release or a source RPM.
