Re: nvidia drivers worth installing?

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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
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