yum livna nvidia problems.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 11:28:48 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am So, den 01.02.2004 schrieb John McBride um 09:15:
> > I'm using the yum.conf I found at the unoffical fedora FAQ 
> > (fedora.artoo.net) and following #5 (nvidia instructions) I get:
> > 
> > ...
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > Cannot find a package matching kernel-module-nvidia
> > Resolving dependencies
> > .....identical dependency loop exceeded
> > package kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2149.nptlbigmem needs 
> > kernel-bigmem = 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl (not provided)
> 
> Is "kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2149.nptlbigmem" a self build kernel
> or from where did you get this one? It's no FC1 kernel.

It's a kernel module package for a non-existant "kernel-bigmem" package.
 
> The kernel module you want to install must fit your installed kernel or
> in your case there must be an RPM fitting your kernel. And from error
> message this is not the case. Pretty simple.

No. This is just an unresolvable dependence in the configured list of
repositories.
 
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