Re: Subtle Livna kmod-* package bug

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:06:16PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 11:05 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> > I have a box I had not updated which requires the kmod-nvidia-96xx
> > package. It does not have the kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6. There the
> > symlink does not exist, and the file is present.
> 
> Charles, just what is the 96xx series? I haven't found out when it's
> used or not. Thanks in advance, Ric

    "Friday, January the 19th: Announcing kmod-nvidia-96xx and
    xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx

    "The new 1.0-97xx series from nVidia drops support for any card
    with a chipset below NV30, such as all GeForce2 and GeForce4
    cards. However don't worry! Livna has forked the original
    xorg-x11-drv-nvidia and kmod-nvidia packages to create ones named
    xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx and kmod-nvidia-96xx. These will be kept
    at the 96xx series of drivers and the original driver will be
    updated to the 97xx series. If you are using one of the cards
    named above, you can install 96xx like this:

    "yum remove kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
    "yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx

    "Please note that this is not an "official" legacy release from
    nVidia, Livna is simply renaming the the most updated 1.0-96xx
    driver to 96xx in the repositories to ensure maximum GPU
    compatibility."

http://rpm.livna.org/

You now know as much about it as I do.


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