FC6 and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9626

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/25/06, Kim Lux <lux at diesel-research.com> wrote:
>
> 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 !

Its been documented on nvnews (the location documented in the driver
README to seek assistance) for several weeks now.

>
> I HATE  HATE HATE NVIDIA.

Why?