Nidia Drivers for PAE Kernel

Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 20:26:41 UTC 2008


2008/10/12 Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com>:
> On 10/12/2008 02:23 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
>> My new XPS 1330m laptop has an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card. I'd
>
>
>  the PAE drivers are on livna .. the latest F8 is
>
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-28.fc8PAE-173.14.12-4.lvn8.i686.rpm
>
>  They add the PAE (or xen etc) on the end. If you have the PAE kernel
> installed and livna repo in yum - it may work just to do yum install
> kmod-nvidia/

It was trying "yum install kmod-nvidia" and it was trying to pull down
the standard kernel. That's what convinced me that it wasn't there.

But it seems the "yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE" does the trick.

Thanks for your help.

Dave...




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