kernel update confuses nvidia drivers, where's error message?

Dave Burns tburns at hawaii.edu
Thu Aug 14 19:11:31 UTC 2008


No hints where to find the boot-time error messages if not in dmesg?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:
> I fetched livna SRPMS:
>
> buildsys-build-rpmfusion-9.1-9.lvn9.src.rpm
> nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-2.lvn9.src.rpm
>
> Install the first, edit:
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-*
> and insert the names of the new kernel.
>
> Rebuild&install buildsys.


using rpmbuild command? What switches? I've never done anything with
source rpms, new territory for me. Otherwise it would be obvious what
you're doing?


> Install the nvidia-kmod src rpm, and rebuild.

rebuild what?

> Install the generated .rpm
>
> telinit 3
> telinit 5
>
> Mogens


Thanks for hints.
Dave




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