Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 18:47 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> OK.  The good news is that the RPM was successfully built.  The bad news is that 
> the output of "rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.33noframebuffer-1.x86_64.rpm" is as follows:
> 
> [root at localhost x86_64]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.33noframebuffer-1.x86_64.rpm 
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>         package kernel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than 
> kernel-2.6.33noframebuffer-1.x86_64) is already installed
>         package kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than 
> kernel-2.6.33noframebuffer-1.x86_64) is already installed
>         file /lib/firmware/matrox/g200_warp.fw from install of 
> kernel-2.6.33noframebuffer-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package linux-
> firmware-20100106-4.fc13.noarch
>         file /lib/firmware/matrox/g400_warp.fw from install of 
> kernel-2.6.33noframebuffer-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package linux-
> firmware-20100106-4.fc13.noarch
> 
> Any ideas? 

When I build a kernel I have to rebuild the firmware, even though I
never use it.  Here's my Build script:
        #!/bin/bash
        rpmbuild -bb --with baseonly --with firmware --without debuginfo
        \
        --target=`uname -m` SPECS/kernel.spec >& LOG/kernel

This web site is extremely useful when building a kernel.
        http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

Part of your problem may be your choice of name for the custom kernel.
I suspect that kernel-2.6.33.noframebuffer-1.x86_64 (note the dot after
the "33") will work better.  The new kernel must come after the old one
in ASCII sort order.

Good Luck.  I have similar problems.

jon