On 4/14/06, Jonathan Berry <berryja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/14/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If I install John Linville's netdev kernel, will I still be able to > > use the nvidia rpm(s) provided by Livna? In FC4 I used the Nvidia > > binary directly from Nvidia and built the driver myself with each new > > kernel, including the netdev kernels, but in keeping with developer > > guidance, with FC5 I'm using the Livna Nvidia driver package. Any > > compatibility issues with the Livna Nvidia driver rpm and the netdev > > kernels? > > If a binary package is not available, then you can always recompile > the SRPM. As far as compatability, I suspect that if it would work > with the binary installer from nVidia, then it would work with the > Livna RPM. No harm in trying it out ;). I'm just wondering how strictly the Livna nvidia rpm wants to match "uname -r", if at all. I think the netdev kernels contain the substring "netdev" in uname -r output. I mistakenly used the term "binary" in the OP when I referred to the Nvidia driver... What I actually used was the installer script from Nvidia, which built the driver against the kernel source. IIRC, someone on fedora-devel advised against that because certain Xorg files were getting changed in the process, and it caused debugging headaches.
