On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:34 -0800, Brian Gaynor wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 16:34 -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > > Oh, and by the way... > > > > 1) one cannot be running X when one builds the nvidia driver. > > (Previously someone told me I didn't have to build nvidia drivers from > > the command line, I could run the nvidia driver included with the kernel > > and then I could build them from my X session. That is wrong.) > > Actually I think you can't build the nvidia driver from X if you're > trying to build for the currently running kernel, building for a > different kernel is no problem in X. Whenever I install a new kernel I > build the driver for that kernel before I reboot: > > # ./NVIDIA-<blah blah>-pkg1 -K -a -k '2.6.18-1.3200.fc6' > > Works like a charm from Gnome Terminal. > > Brian > Add the livna repo and yum install kmod-nvidia is all you really need. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org
