On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 15:18 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Kernel 2.6.24 -- gee that was fun...not!
> From: Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 03/14/2008 03:06 PM
>
> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:01:15 -0700
> > Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>>> I had the 2.6.23 kernel and was able to boot from it but the
> >>>> kernel-headers had been replaced with the 2.6.24 version. In cleaning
> >>>> up that I had also cleaned up the kernel-devel packages (probably a
> >>>> mistake). Either way, though, to get the headers back in sync with the
> >>>> kernel I had to go out to the koji site.
> >
> > This brings up an interesting question. It doesn't look like livna
> > keeps the "old" rpms for ATI and Nvidia drivers on their site after a new
> > kernel version is released.
> >
> > How can someone who is using ATI or Nvidia drivers from Livna revert to the
> > previous kernel in that situation?
> >
>
> I could not figure out a way to do it from livna. I wound up having to
> download from nvidia and build it. It is not hard, pretty straight
> forward, in fact. It just means that I have to do this by hand every
> time I upgrade the kernel. Once they get the bugs ironed of the latest
> kernel I will go back to livna.
rpmbuild --rebuild nvidia-kmod-169.12-2.lvn8.src.rpm --define "kernels
2.6.23.15-137.fc8" --target=x86_64
Set the kernel version and architecture to the one you want to build
(must have kernel and kernel-devel and kmodtool (form Livna) installed).
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
