Nvidia Drivers on FC5

[pparks1]

Argghhhh, I can get so frustrated sometimes with Fedora.

I was doing some testing yesterday on my box and the newest kernel was 2096 and I was able to go over the Stanton Finley guide, get the Nvidia drivers, it installed just fine and all was well.

Tonight, I put in my "real" hard drive, overwrote my FC4 config and then follwed the stanton finley guide. When I got to the Nvidia section, it updated my kernel to 2107 and the system no longer booted. See this thread for more info http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=107847

So, any suggestions as to how to get my Nvidia drivers installed from RPM from the livna site, but without getting the new kernel?????

I tried to NVIDIA driver straight from NVIDIA.com, but x fails to start and says nvidia and glx are not present. This is the method I used with FC4, but it doesn't seem to work so well with FC5.

Any ideas?

[Zigzagcom]

I just did a kernel upgrade to 2107_FC5 and had the livna repo enabled as well, which installed the driver concurrently. I can still boot back into the older kernel with the old driver. Xorg is modular now, so I don't know where you went astray.
There is another package called glx-utils that I have loaded.

[pparks1]

I changed hard drives.

I started out fresh today. So, I don't have the old driver with the old kernel, all I have is the new stuff....and as you know, that ain't working.

So, it's like I am stuck. I cannot install the new stuff and I can't seem to install any of the old stuff. So, I am stuck with the nv driver right now. Argghhhh

[Zigzagcom]

I must have gotten lucky; I had removed rhgb from the previous kernel line in grub.conf, but am not sure if that is why.

[pparks1]

I went back and reinstalled kernel 2107.

I set the box to boot to run level 3. It now boots fine on 2107 and I can type startx and get into X windows.

I then ran yum -y --enablerepo livna install kmod-nvidia

And it seems to have worked.