livna-testing, and nvidia for kernel 2.6.12

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Fri Jul 22 04:45:24 UTC 2005


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.
Has anyone else seen this?




> 
> The package (for some reason) hasn't been updated on livna. I wouldn't
> worry, I'm using the current rawhide kernels and compiling my own nvidia
> module using the livna src rpm and it works fine.
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
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