Are netdev kernels compatible with livna nvidia

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/14/06, Jonathan Berry <berryja at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/14/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I install John Linville's netdev kernel, will I still be able to
> > use the nvidia rpm(s) provided by Livna?  In FC4 I used the Nvidia
> > binary directly from Nvidia and built the driver myself with each new
> > kernel, including the netdev kernels, but in keeping with developer
> > guidance, with FC5 I'm using the Livna Nvidia driver package.  Any
> > compatibility issues with the Livna Nvidia driver rpm and the netdev
> > kernels?
>
> If a binary package is not available, then you can always recompile
> the SRPM.  As far as compatability, I suspect that if it would work
> with the binary installer from nVidia, then it would work with the
> Livna RPM.  No harm in trying it out ;).

I'm just wondering how strictly the Livna nvidia rpm wants to match
"uname -r", if at all.  I think the netdev kernels contain the
substring "netdev" in uname -r output.

I mistakenly used the term "binary" in the OP when I referred to the
Nvidia driver...  What I actually used was the installer script from
Nvidia, which built the driver against the kernel source.  IIRC,
someone on fedora-devel advised against that because certain Xorg
files were getting changed in the process, and it caused debugging
headaches.