nvidia sucks again ! Was recent wine crashes fc6 sessions

lostson lostson at lostsonsvault.org
Mon Dec 11 21:46:01 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:34 -0800, Brian Gaynor wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 16:34 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > Oh, and by the way... 
> > 
> > 1) one cannot be running X when one builds the nvidia driver.
> > (Previously someone told me I didn't have to build nvidia drivers from
> > the command line, I could run the nvidia driver included with the kernel
> > and then I could build them from my X session.  That is wrong.)  
> 
> Actually I think you can't build the nvidia driver from X if you're
> trying to build for the currently running kernel, building for a
> different kernel is no problem in X. Whenever I install a new kernel I
> build the driver for that kernel before I reboot:
> 
>     # ./NVIDIA-<blah blah>-pkg1 -K -a -k '2.6.18-1.3200.fc6'
> 
> Works like a charm from Gnome Terminal.
> 
> Brian
> 

 Add the livna repo and yum install kmod-nvidia is all you really need.
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