nvidia install with new 2129.nptl kernel

[david walcroft]

Wolfgang wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 23:09, Peter Backlund wrote:
> 
>>>How does one go about removing these RPM's from the system?? As the
>>>system will not let me due to other packages which depend on it. I'd
>>>prefer to stick to the old method, else the *.src.rpm's are available.
>>>As I don't wish to wait for new RPM's to become available when new
>>>kernels are released. I'd like to rebuild it when needed.
>>
>>Well, if you want to remove them, just run rpm -e on them. The names of 
>>the rpms installed will be evident by doing rpm -qa \*nvidia\*. You will 
>>however need to use --nodeps to uninstall nvidia-glx, and later 
>>re-install XFree86-MEsa-libGL to satisfy the libGL.so.1 dependency.
>>
>>That said, there is really no need to uninstall in order to upgrade. 
>>Whenever a new kernel comes out, you rebuild the src.rpm and install the 
>>resulting kernel-module-nvidia-driver rpm (note: you don't have to 
>>re-install nvidida-glx when you upgrade the kernel!).
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>/Peter
>>
> 
> 
> Thankyou Peter, will give that a try.
> 
> Wolf
> 
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Wolf,Peter thanks for your help

I dl'd the .src.rpm and rebuilt/installed but the
kernel-module-nvidia * 10.1.i386.rpm required the nvidia-glx * 10.1.i386.rpm
and not the installed nvidia-glx * 8.i386.rpm.
It's only been in 20 min. so far so good.

   david.