I only have basic understandings of the differences between the versions but I think it is something like this:
RHEL - Version sold by Redhat, not the latest and greatest but solid
Centos - Same as above by re-released GNU Public License style
Fedora - Much more bleeding edge, but updated quite frequently
Please feel free to let me know more if there are more specific differences that might aid my understandings :-)
I appreciate all the feedback guys!
Also, Laurentiu Coica, when I try and run make against the Makefile example that you sent over it says there is "nothing to do for default" but I'm sure I'm doing something stupid. I'm going to bring the system into work tomorrow and hopefully I'll be able to get farther with the aid of my coworking being able to see what it is that I'm doing wrong. I'd much prefer to figure out what I need to do to get Centos 5.1 functional then go with Fedora 8, but we'll see how far I get.
Once again, thanks to both of you and everyone else that took the time to read, I'm learning a lot :-)
David
Laurentiu Coica
On Jan 2, 2008 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
David Levinger wrote on Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:21:46 -0800:After some looking around I found this page
> I tried downloading the latest driver's from NVidia's site here:
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.23/NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.23.zip
> However, the RPMs that are provided are compiled for a specific kernel and
> don't work with the latest Centos 5.1 kernel.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.23.html
and assume that's where you found this file.
Last year they still provided their own proprietary drivers in those *.run
files you find here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html
It seems these contain only the display drivers now. :-( and forcedeth is now
the "official" driver.
I see that the provided kernel module is supposed to support RHEL 5.0, so I
guess you just need to wait a bit until they release a version for 5.1.
There's also an external discussion forum at nvnews.netWell, tried just compiling directly with gcc?
> They also provide a .c file
> > for compile but no makefile. I'm going to try and figure that out.of course. You *do* know the difference between CentOS/RHEL and Fedora?
>
> Fedora 8, however, works right out of the box,
Kai
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