Upgrade to2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686.PAE Can I get kmod-nvidia to go with it?
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Sun Oct 18 15:55:11 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 20:27 +1100, Roger wrote:
> On 10/18/2009 11:42 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > On 10/17/2009 07:32 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> >
> >> I upgraded the kernel. What's the process to get the corresponding matching
> >> nvidia driver?
> >>
> > Depending on where you got your *last* nvidia driver from (either
> > rpmfusion or atrpms), you should just have to do a "yum update".
> > Remember to enable the appropriate repo if you normally disable it
> > though....
> >
> >
> If you are building it yourself, you'll have to rebuild it again....
> > I've been through the painful process of getting nvidia drivers to work, it's taken days of experimetnation.
> I found the repos are dangerous and very difficult to find. Yum could
> not find kmod-nvidia nor akmod-nvidia but locked up until I manually
> removed them from repos.d .They don't or didn't for me provide any
> useful applications and crashed the system.
>
> I resorted to downloading the appropriate nvidia driver and finding it
> only works with certain F10 kernels.
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
>
> NVIDIA-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run worked for me for my 8600GT card
>
> Select your driver from the appropriate archive.
> yum install gcc, make, glibc-headers,
>
> uname -r to get the kernel version.
> rpm -qa kernel-devel
> rpm -qa kernel-headers
> If there are mis matches yum search for the correct files yum remove the
> mismatches and install the good versions.
>
> then install from an init 3 terminal. not from X.
> the NVIDIA-x86-nnnnn.run driver will check that you have the headers and
> devel files to match your kernel.
>
> The above is the only way I could get the nvidia driver to work
>
> Nvidia drivers do not work with F11 and F12 there are dozens of failure
> reports on google and I have experimented for days now to solve the
> problems but am stuck with nouveau graphics which are useless for 3D
> Blender.
>
> Hope this helps
Just another data point: F11 kmod-nvidia packages from rpmfusion work
fine with my GeForce 8300 and my Quadro NVS 140M.
> Roger
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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