Re: Problem with kernel ugrade & nVidia drivers

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On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:41, lovswr1 wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 18:35, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 08:20, lovswr1 wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 10:09, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > On 21 Nov 2002 06:22:20 -0500
> > > > lovswr1 <lovswr1@earthlink.net> wrote:
[big snip]
> > you can get around the already installed message by using rpm -ivh
> > --force ...
> 
> ok I forced 
> 
> root@matrix1 SPECS]# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
> [root@matrix1 i386]# ls
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.i386.rpm  NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.i386.rpm
> [root@matrix1 i386]# rpm -Uvh --force NVIDIA*
> 
> 
> & this is what I got
> 
> 
> Warning: loading
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will taint the
> kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
>   See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
> tainted modules
> Module NVdriver loaded, with warnings
> 
> NVdriver installed successfully
> 
>   --- WARNING!!
>       libGL.so.1.0.3123
>  --- The above file(s) possibly belong to a conflicting MESA rpm,
>  --- or to a previous stale NVIDIA distribution.
>  --- They have been renamed to xxx.<originalFile>.RPMSAVE to
>  --- avoid conflicting with the files contained within this
>  --- package.
>  --- Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section of
>  --- /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for more details.
>    2:NVIDIA_GLX             ###########################################
> [100%]
This is fine!  That what I get everytime I have to recompile NVIDIA and
reinstall it for a new kernel.  Don't worry about the possibly
conflicting message, you can ignore it in this case.
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au>
For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two.

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