On Monday 12 May 2008, John Thompson wrote: >On 2008-05-11, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am running Fedora 8 with kernel 2.6.23.15-137, I want to stay with >> this kernel version for vmware and various other regions. >> >> I'd like to use the proprietary Nvidia drivers and they are available >> for this kernel from the livna repository:- >> >> kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.15-137.fc8.x86_64 169.09-7.lvn8 livna >> >> but there isn't any matching xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64. >> >> Is there any way I can stay with my existing kernel and get the Nvidia >> drivers installed? > >Download the package from nVidia: > >http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/169.12/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_6 >4-169.12-pkg2.run > > >Drop to runlevel three, run (as root) the package: > > #sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run > >And it will build and install the modules you need and then install the >driver. > Which is exactly how I was doing it, with that same .run file, till the last blowup wasted the boot drive totally. Also that applies ONLY to kernels < 2.6.25-rc1, and I'm sorry, but explaining the difference is getting a little tedious with its many repeats. But here goes: The kernel's video interface has changed at >=2.6.25-rc1, probably to poison nvidia, and nvidia has indicated several times that they do not feel its up to them to fix it. I read that as a screw you attitude on both sides of the fence. Since the middle of that argument is not something I want to get into, I went out and bought an ATI 2400HD, but found the radeonhd driver was still pretty slow, so I switched to the radeon driver which was no faster, so I shutdown and put an older ATI card in, a 9200SE-128 (rv280 chipset) which tripled the glxgears speed to the middle 750 fps range and runs tvtime and such just fine. If and when I install f9, I'll try the other 2400HD card and the radeonhd driver again as I see there seems to be a steady stream of small patches going into radeonhd. I'm not an action gamer, so this 9200SE is generally fast enough for me. I might change my mind if in the next 6 months, something wipes the boot drives LSN0 clean, which happened to me twice while running the nvidia blob in the last 15 months, the second time completely destroying a 200GB WD drive that was about a month out of warranty. If such as that doesn't happen while running an ATI card and open drivers, that's just another 20mg of cialis in the finger pointing at nvidia. >Bring up runlevel 5 again and enjoy. > Yes, that would be nice, very nice, if it worked with newer kernels, but it doesn't, and the patch that has been suggested right here in this thread doesn't even begin to apply to NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run.\ Humm, where did you get NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run? Whats visible on their download page right now is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12.pkg1.run. >-- > >John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Niska: "Do you know the writings of Shan Yu?" Mal: "You starting a book club." --Episode #10, "War Stories" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
