kernel source and nVidia drivers - Bigger Question
Florin Andrei
florin at andrei.myip.org
Mon Jan 16 18:51:39 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 17:36 -0600, Bob Hartung wrote:
> Now I did a search for nvidia.ko and found that /lib/modules contains
> the following:
>
> 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> 2.6.11-1.27_FC3
> 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4
> 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
> 2.6.9-1.681_FC3
What a mess. :-/
1. Fully update your system
yum update; reboot
While rebooting, make sure you choose the latest kernel, if there's more
than one installed
2. Identify all kernel-related packages:
rpm -qa | grep kernel
3. Remove all kernel-related packages except the latest kernel and
kernel-devel packages
rpm -ev kernel-2.6.9.... kernel-devel-blah... .... ...
Make sure you're not removing the running kernel. ;-)
After that, remove all the remnants from /lib/modules (anything not
related to the current kernel).
4. Enable Livna
wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release4.rpm
rpm -ivh livna-release4.rpm
5. Install the NVidia driver package:
yum install kernel-module-nvidia
More clues here:
http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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