Mark Hutchinson wrote: > I need to get the nvidia drivers installed on FC5. > Does anyone have this working yet? > I have kernel-devel installed and am trying to use the NVIDIA-8178 drivers from > nvidia.com but the build always fails. There does not seem to be any drivers > at livna yet either. > > Anyone know how to get them in? I'm still running kernel-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5 from FC5 test2, but I've been updating through development and extras-development through yesterday. Yesterday, I installed the fedora-release from FC5, and when I went to do the yum upgrade, there was only the packages in updates to install. I had previously downloaded the nvidia-glx-1.0.8178-0.lvn.3.4.src.rpm from livna FC4 repository, and I had rebuilt it on FC5t2. I installed the resulting 2 RPMs, and it works on my nvidia MX 400 video card just fine. I know I'll have to re-build it again if Livna doesn't make RPMs for the new kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 I have waiting when I finally do have to reboot (I'm in my 62nd day of uptime). It was a pretty painless step following the instructions on the livna site. I may have had to make some pretty trivial changes to the .spec file (gack, it was 2 months ago!), but it worked after my first successful rebuild. > Thank you, YMMV, good luck! -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
