On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:40:12AM +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Greetings, > > When installing the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1 on the > 2.6.6-1.435.2.1 kernel I get a message saying that rivfb must be > disabled in the kernel. But I can continue but conflict between the > rivfb and nvidia drivers may occur, or some thing like that anyway. > > If I run lspci the rivfb module is not loaded. > But if I run "X" from the command line in runlevel 3 to test, it works > but then my prompt doesn't come back when I exit X. > > I also noticed the problem if I am in gnome and do a <ctrl><alt><f1> the > console is is unusable. > The question is this, is there a better kernel rpm available or must I > recompile my kernel without rivafb (where I always get errors on make > modules_install). ? Not really, but there are nvidia rpms that you can use with 2.6.6-1.435.2.1 at http://atrpms.net/name/nvidia-graphics/ Follow the instructions at http://atrpms.net/install.html and in the description of the rpms (mainly move /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia to the right config file location, e.g. no ".nvidia" suffix). > I used apt-get to get my kernel from one of the following sources for > apt: > rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 core updates freshrpms > rpm http://apt.sw.be fedora/2/en/i386 dag > rpm http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/2 i386 stable bleeding > rpm-src http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/2 i386 stable bleeding > > > -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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