How to install nvidia drivers for 2.6.23.15-137 kernel?

[Chris G]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:46:17PM -0500, John Thompson wrote:
> 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.
> 
OK, thanks.


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Chris Green