Re: nVidia drivers and rawhide

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tor, 19 05 2005 kl. 17:43 -0400, skrev Jeff Spaleta:
> 0) do not mix the livna rpms with nvidia's installer
> 1) its very easy to use livna's srpm to rebuild a new kernel module 
> 2) do not mix the livna rpms with nvidia's installer
> 3) example using nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-0.lvn.1.3.src.rpm  from livna
>     assuming kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.1319_FC4 and kernel-smp-devel-2.6.11-1.1319_FC4
>     are installed  on an smp athlon:
>     rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686 --define "kernel
> 2.6.11-1.1315_FC4smp" nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-0.lvn.1.3.src.rpm
> (that should be one line but of course email is going to line wrap that)
> 4) do not mix the livna rpms with nvidia's installer
> 5) that rebuild command will create
>     nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-0.lvn.1.3.i686.rpm
>     kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.1315_FC4smp-1.0.7174-0.lvn.1.3.i686.rpm
>     nvidia-glx-devel-1.0.7174-0.lvn.1.3.i686.rpm
> 6) do not mix the livna rpms with nvidia's installer
> 7) all you need to do is install the new kernel-module-nvidia package
> that was built
>     rpm -ivh kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.1315_FC4smp-1.0.7174-0.lvn.1.3.i686.rpm
> 8) repeat as needed when a new kernel and kernel-devel package is
> installed before you
>     reboot into the new kernel.


Can this guide be used on all my RHEL4 workstations too?



Regards
Bjorn Andersen


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