On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, sean wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:01:15 -0600
"Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I see on rpm.livna.org that there is a flaw in the FC5 kernel and that
we are waiting for an errata update before we can build modules like
the Nvidia video driver. But I don't see any official information
about this on fedora.redhat.com.
Does anybody know the story?
Last entry on:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC5Common
While strictly speaking, that entry answers the question, IF I read it
correctly the details are a _little_ thin. Of course, the details I would
like to know probably don't belong in that particular document.
Specifically, my question would be "Why are the non-gpl'd kernel modules
not supported in the release kernels?" and "Is there a semi-simple
work-around available?"
Since my video cards are NVidea based, I'll wait until I can use the
non-gpl'd modules before investigating FC5 for my own use.
You can now. Enable updates-testing and livna-testing repos, yum update
kernel, kernel-devel, and yum install kmod-nvidia-1.0.8178 and
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8178 RPMs from there. Reboot.
HTH.
I suspect that such details may be found over on the developement list,
and I may get enough ambition to go look for myself. OTOH, if somebody has
a summary or a direct pointer, I sure would be obliged.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
