fedora-test-list, FC2: Solution without compiling kernel, X logout=box freeze

NealDroste at sbcglobal.net NealDroste at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jun 27 19:32:09 UTC 2004


Hi all,

Using yum update isn't working with my nvidia GeForce 2 MX at present. 
The available rpms need fixing. Using the linuxant kernel appears to be 
a temporary fix if you also put "exclude = kernel*" in your yum.conf 
until this gets straightened out.

See:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg01730.html
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=29208
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads.php

or you could stick to traditional methods:

http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54

HIH,
Neal


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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:24:39 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris at www.linux.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Request for testing: xterm 191
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Satish Balay wrote:
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>>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:12:06 -0500 (CDT)
>>From: Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm>
>>To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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>>Subject: Re: Request for testing: xterm 191
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>>On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If you are an xterm user using Fedora Core 1 or 2, please upgrade
>>>to this xterm release and test it as much as possible.
>>
>>Trying it on FC1 - The first thing I noticed is - the 'blue' color
>>used by 'ls --color=auto' for 'dir' listings is different (a bit
>>lighter shade. Not sure if this is a bug - but don't mind this new
>>color.
>>
>>I still have the old xterms running - so I could compare..
> 
> 
> Yep, that's one of the changes.  Upstream xterm's colors are 
> slightly different from what Red Hat has shipped.  I think they 
> used to be very ugly or something, so we added customizations to 
> make it prettier, then xterm cleaned itself up over time to look 
> nicer, but with slightly different shade of blue.  That's not 
> fact, just personal hypothesis.  ;o)
> 
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> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:43:37 +0200
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: What happened kernel-source?
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> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 03:51, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>What happened to the kernel-source at: ??
>>http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/
>>
>>I need this to recompile my NVIDIA drivers for 
>>
>>kernel-2.6.7-1.448
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> 
> you don't need (nor can use) kernel-sourcecode package for compiling
> drivers.... the normal rpms have all the needed info already.
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> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 03:43, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 03:51, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>What happened to the kernel-source at: ??
>>>http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/
>>>
>>>I need this to recompile my NVIDIA drivers for 
>>>
>>>kernel-2.6.7-1.448
>>
>>you don't need (nor can use) kernel-sourcecode package for compiling
>>drivers.... the normal rpms have all the needed info already.
> 
> NVIDIA suggests that kernel-source is indeed used.
> 
> Here is the error directly from the nvidia installer:
> ===========================================================================
> ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'.  This is most
> likely because the kernel module was
>          built using the wrong kernel source files.  Please make sure
> you have installed the kernel source
>          files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example,
> be sure you have the 'kernel-source'
>          rpm installed.  If you know the correct kernel source files are
> installed, you may specify the
>          kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' commandline
> option
> ==============================================================================
> 
> What is the kernel-sourcecode package used for?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ernest
> 
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