On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:26 +1030, David Abbott wrote: > This seems to be my problem. > I've tried so many things that I am now reinstalling to start off with > a clean slate. > My DVD installer comes with kernel 2.6.11 and if you update it goes to > 2.6.13..?? > There are various things on the list about who has dropped back to > what kernel with what driver etc.. > so I am guessing I have to find the right combo. > There was a very eye opening thread about the Nvidia drivers and about > them not being open source and all that. > .. > As far as the open source nv driver goes it just doesn't pick up the > 3d goodness which I need to run various intensive production tools. > > After my fresh install I am going to try going straight into > > yum install kernel-devel > > Hopefully that will give me the correct source. > > Then download the nvidia driver and bang that in. > I'm up with shutting down X to get the driver in there. > The problem with the Yum stuff as I get the error. > > Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.7174 is needed by > package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 > Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 is needed > by package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 > > You can see that the kernels don't match.. > > Well here goes ....again For a new install: I always install the development package group, which includes the kernel-devel package. After that I do a yum update to get everything up to date I get the NVIDIA......run file finally a simple reboot to runlevel 3, compile/install the module, edit the xorg.conf file to change drivers, and reboot to runlevel 5. ALL DONE > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
