On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 20:27 +1100, Roger wrote: > On 10/18/2009 11:42 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > On 10/17/2009 07:32 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > > >> I upgraded the kernel. What's the process to get the corresponding matching > >> nvidia driver? > >> > > Depending on where you got your *last* nvidia driver from (either > > rpmfusion or atrpms), you should just have to do a "yum update". > > Remember to enable the appropriate repo if you normally disable it > > though.... > > > > > If you are building it yourself, you'll have to rebuild it again.... > > I've been through the painful process of getting nvidia drivers to work, it's taken days of experimetnation. > I found the repos are dangerous and very difficult to find. Yum could > not find kmod-nvidia nor akmod-nvidia but locked up until I manually > removed them from repos.d .They don't or didn't for me provide any > useful applications and crashed the system. > > I resorted to downloading the appropriate nvidia driver and finding it > only works with certain F10 kernels. > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html > > NVIDIA-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run worked for me for my 8600GT card > > Select your driver from the appropriate archive. > yum install gcc, make, glibc-headers, > > uname -r to get the kernel version. > rpm -qa kernel-devel > rpm -qa kernel-headers > If there are mis matches yum search for the correct files yum remove the > mismatches and install the good versions. > > then install from an init 3 terminal. not from X. > the NVIDIA-x86-nnnnn.run driver will check that you have the headers and > devel files to match your kernel. > > The above is the only way I could get the nvidia driver to work > > Nvidia drivers do not work with F11 and F12 there are dozens of failure > reports on google and I have experimented for days now to solve the > problems but am stuck with nouveau graphics which are useless for 3D > Blender. > > Hope this helps Just another data point: F11 kmod-nvidia packages from rpmfusion work fine with my GeForce 8300 and my Quadro NVS 140M. > Roger > > > > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
