Nvidia again

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.
>> ----
>>  
>>>     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
>
>
>
    However removing the nvdia driver from modules did not fix the 
problem with the knuNvidia drivers I d/l from Fedora. So I'm back making 
my own. I know how to do that. And know how to remove drivers. All good 
everyday stuff for a Linux user. No wonder Fedora has 0.002% of the 
computer users in the world.


Karl


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