Hi Fernando,
On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:23:40 -0300 Fernando Lozano fernando@lozano.eti.br wrote:
Hi there,
If I switch to the livna.org nvida drivers, which packages do I have to install? just the xen ones for kmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia?
No need to do that, Freshrpms should work just fine. Besides, mixing Livna and Freshrpms might give you some other headaches.
I had some problems here as well, and they were due to the i586 x i686 kernel mess. Matthias Saou from Freshrpms showed me how to spot the problem:
rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\t%{arch}\n' 'kernel*'
This will tell you which kernel you have installed. If yours is i586 and kernel-devel is i686, dkms won't be able to build kernel module for NVidia driver.
If that's your case, there's a simple workaround using yumdownloader (found on yum-utils), it's been posted here on this list.
As someone noticed, you'll also need dkms, but this should have been installed already when you installed the driver package from Freshrpms.
HTH
Andre