How to install nvidia drivers for 2.6.23.15-137 kernel?

[John Thompson]

On 2008-05-11, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I am running Fedora 8 with kernel 2.6.23.15-137, I want to stay with
> this kernel version for vmware and various other regions.
>
> I'd like to use the proprietary Nvidia drivers and they are available
> for this kernel from the livna repository:-
>
>     kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.15-137.fc8.x86_64     169.09-7.lvn8          livna 
>          
> but there isn't any matching xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64.
>
> Is there any way I can stay with my existing kernel and get the Nvidia
> drivers installed?

Download the package from nVidia:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/169.12/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run


Drop to runlevel three, run (as root) the package:

  #sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run

And it will build and install the modules you need and then install the 
driver.

Bring up runlevel 5 again and enjoy.

-- 

John (john at os2.dhs.org)