On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:22:43 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Jack Spaar wrote: > >> [...]I hope this means that livna will have a version >> of their nvidia rpm out soon for the 2179 kernel update. >> > > Grab the SRPMs, boot the new kernel in runlevel 3, and "rpmbuild > --rebuild --target <arch> nvidia-driver-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1.src.rpm". The > result will be > kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1.<arch>.rpm, > nvidia-driver-debuginfo-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1.<arch>.rpm, > nvidia-glx-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1.<arch>.rpm, > and nvidia-glx-devel-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1.<arch>.rpm. These work fine and > they'll serve until livna is back in production. > Thanks for the tip -- I tried it with the .2188 kernel, worked fine for me. A caution to low bandwidth users -- unlike livna's pre-built nvidia modules, you'll need to have the 40MB kernel-source rpm installed in order to build from the nvidia-driver SRPM. --Jack
