On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 00:01 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Lonni J Friedman <netllama <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Installing the driver is simple. See: > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 > > That's very bad advice! If you're going to install binary drivers at all > (they're known to cause stability and security problems, and they're probably > illegal because they link non-GPL code to the GPL kernel), at least install a > properly-packaged one so you don't get a big mess each time you update the > kernel and/or X.Org X11. That's what http://rpm.livna.org is for. > > See: http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/3rd-pty-video/ > > Kevin Kofler > i tried to run the command: yum install kmod-nvidia which pulls: kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidi kernel-2.6.19-1.28 i'm already running kernel-2.6.19-1.28 so i get a conflict. can i uninstall the kernel and install the kernel from livna (i also have a working kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 kernel running).
