no livna RPM's for my kernel?

Scott Harvanek scotth at sourcemirrors.org
Sat Sep 20 07:06:40 UTC 2008


Michael,
I don't see it, I would then suggest just grabbing the driver from the 
nvidia site and compiling it, it works very well and you can easily 
write a script for boot to recompile if there is a kernel change.


Michael Hannon wrote:
> Howdy.  I've got the following kernel installed on my Fedora 9 system:
>
> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Sep 3 03:16:37 EDT 2008
>
> This system has an nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 430 video controller, for which I've been using the drivers from livna.  At the moment, there doesn't seem to be a livna package for this kernel.
>
> For instance, if I look at:
>
>     http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/x86_64/
>
> the most recent RPM's I can find for kmod-nvidia are:
>
>     http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/x86_64/kmod-nvidia-173.14.12-3.lvn9.x86_64.rpm
>
> and:
>
>     http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/x86_64/kmod-nvidia2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64-173.14.09-2.lvn9.x86_64.rpm
>
> I.e., I don't see anything for the 2.6.26 kernel.  Am I missing the obvious, or looking in the wrong places, or ...?  At the moment I'm stuck using the less-than-perfect nv driver.
>
> By the way, I don't usually have to poke around on the livna web site at all.  Usually, all it takes is a "yum update" to get a reasonable nvidia driver.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> -- Mike
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