livna-testing, and nvidia for kernel 2.6.12

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:13 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 00:45 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:42 +0100, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > I know I can download the driver from NVidia, file
> > > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run and just run it to install the
> > > > correct driver, but am curious why in this instance livna-testing does
> > > > not have the latest driver, if it is just matter or time, or if FC3 is
> > > > now too old, so won't be getting updates that fast, etc.
> > I tried to use "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run" form NVIDIA but it
> > did not work.  The install complains about needing the kernel source.
> 
> Do you have the kernel-devel package installed? The most recent FC3
> update kernel was packaged the FC4 way, with a separate kernel-devel
> package containing the information needed to build modules.

Awesome!!! Thanks for the help.  
I downloaded and installed: "kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3"

Now, I am back in business :)

Ernesto



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> Paul.
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