-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 jack wallen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 00:01 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Lonni J Friedman <netllama <at> gmail.com> writes: >>> Installing the driver is simple. See: >>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 >> That's very bad advice! If you're going to install binary drivers at all >> (they're known to cause stability and security problems, and they're probably >> illegal because they link non-GPL code to the GPL kernel), at least install a >> properly-packaged one so you don't get a big mess each time you update the >> kernel and/or X.Org X11. That's what http://rpm.livna.org is for. >> >> See: http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/3rd-pty-video/ >> >> Kevin Kofler >> > i tried to run the command: > > yum install kmod-nvidia > > which pulls: > > kmod-nvidia > xorg-x11-drv-nvidi > kernel-2.6.19-1.28 > > i'm already running kernel-2.6.19-1.28 so i get a conflict. can i > uninstall the kernel and install the kernel from livna (i also have a > working kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 kernel running). > > You have the .586 kernel installed. this was an error in Anaconda as reported here many times. Download the .686 kernel manually to i.e. your Desktop, open a terminal and cd to the folder you put the kernel.rpm then do (as root) rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kernel*.rpm afterward reboot to the new kernel. You should be able to use the kmod-nvidia from livna (though I must say I much prefer the freshrpms 'nvidia-x11-drv' as it will automagically build a new driver each time a new kernel is used (no waiting for livna to build the package for you!) Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFti/15mBKdb7VQEcRAvqnAJ9iN6a/UGoLS4ZI0OIT4LrLOSiWfACdEp/7 Y2VFqKKdljfE9iblcWpfQrA= =gMto -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
