What's wrong with the kernel?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, sean wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:01:15 -0600
>> "Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I see on rpm.livna.org that there is a flaw in the FC5 kernel and that
>>> we are waiting for an errata update before we can build modules like
>>> the Nvidia video driver.  But I don't see any official information
>>> about this on fedora.redhat.com.
>>>
>>> Does anybody know the story?
>>
>> Last entry on:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC5Common
>
> While strictly speaking, that entry answers the question, IF I read it
> correctly the details are a _little_ thin. Of course, the details I would
> like to know probably don't belong in that particular document.
>
> Specifically, my question would be "Why are the non-gpl'd kernel modules
> not supported in the release kernels?" and "Is there a semi-simple
> work-around available?"
>
> Since my video cards are NVidea based, I'll wait until I can use the
> non-gpl'd modules before investigating FC5 for my own use.

You can now.  Enable updates-testing and livna-testing repos, yum update 
kernel, kernel-devel, and yum install kmod-nvidia-1.0.8178 and 
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8178 RPMs from there.  Reboot.

HTH.

>
> I suspect that such details may be found over on the developement list,
> and I may get enough ambition to go look for myself. OTOH, if somebody has
> a summary or a direct pointer, I sure would be obliged.
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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