FC6 and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626

[Kim Lux]

I just went through the same process, only I fixed the situation by
adding a dummy config.h file to
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-PAE-i686/include/linux

I built with 8776 rather than 9626, although I did download and try 9626
before I added the config.h file.

Everything runs great now.

BTW: the livna rpms did not work for me, either by manual installation
or via yum.  The problem seems to be that kmod-nvidia has an unfilled
dependency on nvidia-kmod-common, which I could not find anywhere.

This was a very, very frustrating issue to sort out !  I wasted many
hours working on this last night !

I HATE  HATE HATE NVIDIA.





On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 16:07 -0500, James wrote:
> I am re-posting this because I was told that this needed to go to
> fedora-list and not fedora-test-list... Ok here it is.. 
> 
> Annndd I have been informed that livna-testing has the rpms in there
> repository. I was not aware  of that and spent the better half of today
> trying to get the nvidia acript to work... I did search for this
> solution but nothing came up for ivna beta nvidia drivers ... So I came
> up with the solution below.
> 
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> I have FC6 installed with the
> 
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626-pkg1.run and what a beautiful desktop. 
> 
> Download from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9626/ the
> drivers from here. 
> 
> To get it to work I drop to runlevel 3
> 
> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626-pkg1.run just to launch the script.
> 
> <alt+f2> and login as root
> 
> cd /tmp/selfgzXXXX/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626-pkg1/usr/src/nv
> 
> comment out config.h in nv-linux.h
> 
> save and exit
> 
> Switch back to script 
> 
> <alt+f1>
> Continue with the script.
> 
> Reboot.
> 
> Yes... I know FC6  is not released until tomorrow. 
> 
> I am from Oklahoma ... BOOMER SOONER!!!
> 
-- 
Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.