On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 12:45 -0500, David Boles wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Claude Jones wrote: > | On Sat January 12 2008, Karl Larsen wrote: > |> I would like to try the re-packaged rpm files from Fedora. How do > |> you start the update system so it works with every new kernel? I think > |> someone said you have to go to freshrpms wherever that is :-) > | > | Karl: Go to freshrpms.net > | > | A little way down is the instruction: > | "The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to click here from > | within firefox.........." > | > | Click on the word 'here' and that will install the freshrpms repo > | Keep in mind that some packages from freshrpms MAY clash with packages from > | the livna repository, if you also have that enabled. Tread carefully. > | Personally, I switched to freshrpms as my sole repo for most non-fedora > | packages. If you want to go with their nVidia package, you'll have to first > | uninstall the tarball you've installed from the nVidia site. I don't remember > | the instruction, but you should be able to find it. > | > | When you install the nVidia package from freshrpms, it will also pull > | the 'dkms' package, which stands for 'dynamic kernel module script' - each > | time you reboot your machine after that, that script will check your > | installed nVidia kernel-module against your running kernel and if it's not > | correct, it will automatically build a new kernel module for you before > | continuing the boot - when your machine comes up after a new kernel update, > | you will see this happen, and your machine will come up fully working with > | the nVidia driver. > | > | Note that there are some reports of some folks having problems with a package > | or two using the freshrpms package. I believe Gene H and Ric M have reported > | such issues in the past. I have been running the freshrpms nVidia drivers on > | multiple machines for a couple of years now without issues. > > > I don't pay too much attention to those two. Ric is really crazy and Gene is > really old. > > This is were I duck under my desk. ;-) Heh heh, I cannot fault the young for speaking the truth, although you missed the part where I am getting old too. 58 is getting there on a bobsled ride to Hell on greased rails. So, I'll truth you back ... youth is WASTED on the young! Samuel Clements wrote that one. 'still true, too. :) Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
