Nvidia again

[Karl Larsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 13:10 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> To get my new F8 to run at all I used the Nvidia provided system 
>> that worked fine. But then I decided to try the Fedora way. Now I can't 
>> even get on F8 because the nvidia from Fedora finds the day-old driver 
>> and instead of deleting it it errors out. Great design guys!
>>     
> ---
> Fedora doesn't provide nVidia.
>
> There is no Fedora way. If you plan to install from nVidia tarball, you
> rely upon nVidia to provide a suitable package. If you use freshrpm's
> packages, you must use freshrpm's prescribed manner/packages. If you use
> livna's packages, you must use livna's prescribed manner/packages.
>
> Regardless of whether you use nVidia's tarball, freshrpm's nVidia
> packages or Livna's nVidia's packages, Fedora has no involvement in your
> plight because their intent is to provide a sustainable Linux and you
> are stepping beyond the Fedora packaging.
>
> The fact remains, as so eloquently stated by Lamar, that Livna (and
> likewise, freshrpm's), provide nVidia packages that take the nVidia
> binary release and package it for easy and proper installation on
> Fedora. The fact that you cannot manage their packages is a problem that
> you should probably take up with the packagers.
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>   
>>     It appears I will have to 1. Remove the nvidia rpm I just spent 
>> hours getting, or find out how I can manually remove the dam thing! 
>>     
> ----
> rpm -e PACKAGE_NAME
> or
> yum remove PACKAGE_NAME
> ----
>   
>> Modules used to live above /usr/lib/ but no more.
>>     
> ----
> modules ALWAYS live in /lib/modules/$KERNEL
> ----
>   
>>  I have not found them 
>> even on F7.
>>     
> ----
> same answer
> ----
>   
>>  What am I missing?
>>     
> ----
> I'll pass on the bait but thanks for the offer.
>
> Craig
>
>   
    I found it thank you for reminding me where the modules have been 
for years. I found the nvidi module first in F7 and then in a mounted F8 
and now I will try F8 again with that removed.

Karl



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