Anyone using the rpm.livna.org Nvidia driver in FC3?

Neal Wilkinson forums.lists at comcast.net
Sat Mar 12 20:23:27 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 19:28 -0500, Jeffrey Burns wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-03 at 10:08 -0500, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> > on the web site it says "If you are planning to use rpm.livna.org
> > packages with Fedora Core 3, please note that fedora.us has not yet made
> > packages for this distribution available. Dependencies can instead be
> > satisfied by using fedora.us' packages for Fedora Core 2. Please see the
> > News Section for more information."
> > 
> > I've seen posts where it appears people are using it in FC3. Anyone
> > here? 
> 
> I am. You're going to need the up to date nvidia-glx and kernel-module-
> nvidia packages. Note that these packages aren't in Livna STABLE, they
> are in TESTING:
> 
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.testing/.
> 
> You can either grab them from there or set this up as a channel in your
> favourite dependency solver (yum, apt4rpm, I'm using smart.) I've been
> using them for the last 2 kernel releases without a problem although the
> last kernel module release lagged behind the kernel release by about a
> week i think.

So what am I doing wrong here? I'm just guessing on the commands btw. I
get the same error when using system-install-packages. 

[root at home neal]# yum -c /etc/yum.repos.d/extras install kernel-module-
nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3.i686.rpm
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00
extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00
http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')>
Trying other mirror.
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 285 kB
04:39
MD Read   : ################################################## 685/685
updates-re: ################################################## 685/685
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 323 kB
00:00
MD Read   : ################################################## 952/952
extras    : ################################################## 952/952
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 797 kB
00:02
MD Read   : ################################################## 2623/2623
base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
Examining kernel-module-
nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3.i686.rpm: kernel-module-
nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 - 1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3.i686
Marking kernel-module-
nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3.i686.rpm to beinstalled
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.i686
0:1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display for package:
kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.6629 for package: kernel-
module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display is needed by
packagekernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.6629 is needed by package
kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
[root at home neal]#                




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