Old livna kmod

[Hadders]

David Timms wrote:
> Hadders wrote:
>> David Timms wrote:
>>> Hadders wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>  I'm just wondering how I get an old kernel module from livna kmod?
>>>>
>>>> I need to get the module for 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp, how would I go 
>>>> that?
>>> Have you tried:
>>> http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kmod-nvidia
>>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3
>>> http://ftp.upjs.sk/pub/mirrors/rpm.livna.org/5/i386/
>>>
>>> Often mirrors will keep around old packages {sometimes by accident}. 
>>> You might also like to try a kernel half way between that and 
>>> current, to see whether a newer but not current kernel resolves the 
>>> problem with the current kernel.
>>>
>>> Also, I have from my yum cache: {if you still cant find what you are 
>>> after}
>>> kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.2.6.16_1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
>>> kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-2.2.6.16_1.2133_FC5.i686.rpm
>>> kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-2.2.6.17_1.2145_FC5.i686.rpm
>>> kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-2.2.6.17_1.2157_FC5.i686.rpm
>>> kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
>>>
>>> If you boot a non-smp kernel, you might be pleasantly surprised that 
>>> other stuff might just work.
>>>
>>> DaveT.
>>>
>> Thanks, I'll give those a go and may just try some older kernels, but 
>> I thought the kmod stuff came as two RPMs?
> On fc5/fc6 it is dkms {extras} which is the enabler. Then the package 
> in question must be built to use dkms.
>
>> Hmmm, not sure I agree with your smp diagnosis. After all, if it 
>> doesn't work, then we're in big trouble as practically every new 
>> processor die now has two cores!
> Which work OK with the non-smp kernel in my experience. You might have 
> noticed that the grub menu provides both the smp and non smp options ? 
> On a machine of mine eg pentiumIV with hyperthreading activated, both 
> the kernels operate OK. On another box {dell pe2650} and FC3, there 
> was often times when smp wouldn't boot after an update but non-smp was 
> fine. It didn't really make much difference to the performance of that 
> machine {perhaps it also wasn't under much load}.
>
> Just trying to reduce the scope of the problem to something more 
> workable ;)
>
> DaveT.
>
Thanks for the tips. I found this, this morning,   
http://luna.gui.uva.es/sites/rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/i386/  w00t! the 
mother load of livna releases. I've leached what I need.

I'm using VMWare workstation and have given a second processor to that 
so I have some decent performance. Works well and to date I've not had 
any reason to consider the smp stuff a problem.  Also remember that 
"hyper-threading" was pseudo processor presentation.  A Pentium D or 
Core Duo now has two physical cores.

I've subscribed to the ata.raid and dm-devel lists.  I've gotten some 
more feedback on the main problem I'm having and someone is looking at 
my dmraid config. Hopefully I'll get a solution within the next day or 
so and 2.6.18-1 here I come!