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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 15.08.2008 07:10, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Dave Burns wrote:
> ...
>> using rpmbuild command? What switches? 
> This is not rocket science :-)
> 
> For my x86_64 machine:
> 
> # rpm -i nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-2.lvn9.src.rpm
> # rpm -i buildsys-build-rpmfusion-9.1-9.lvn9.src.rpm

Just FYI, you don't need to download or modify buildsys-build-rpmfusion 
to build a single kmod; it's way easier then that; quoting

http://rpmfusion.org/Packaging/KernelModules/Kmods2

> === Is it possible to compile a kmod against self compiled or other kernels? ===
> 
> Yes, easily, it's just a few steps. If you don't have a rpm build environment set one up like this
> {{{
> $ su -c "yum -y install rpmdevtools kmodtool kernel-devel"
> $ rpmdev-setuptree
> }}}
> 
> Now download the kmod src.rpm to the local directory and rebuild it for the running kernel:
> {{{
> $ yumdownloader --source kmod-foo
> $ rpmbuild --rebuild foo-kmod*.src.rpm --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target $(uname -m)
> }}}
> 
> At the end of the build output you will see the names of the RPMs rpmbuild built. Use yum to install it with a command like this
> {{{
> $ su -c "yum --nogpgcheck install ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686/kmod-foo-1.0-4.i686.rpm"
> }}}


More details and notes:
http://rpmfusion.org/Packaging/KernelModules/Kmods2#head-a6ef94d0e888ea41a2335d30fe7da26814e23f8f

CU
knurd

P.S.: Hopefully the livna builder is back up in a few hours