Nvidia direct rendering vs. SMP kernel

[acmemetalfab]

I have an FC5 machine that is hyperthreading and I'd ike to take advantage of that. I also have a 256MB Nvidia video card and I'd like to use direct rendering. Here's the rub: the most recent FC5 kernel I've got is not SMP so it doesn't make use of the hyperthreading. When I try and install the Nvidia drivers for direct rendering it only updates the most recent kernel. How can I make the most recent kernel SMP or install the Nvidia direct rendering drivers on the older kernel?

[Seve]

Hello:
Are you absolutely sure that the latest kernel is not smp enabled ?

My guess is that it is and it's just that there are no longer any separate kernels labeled as smp.
This is the way it is with fc6 +
Some one else will have to confirm this as I am not running fc5.

if you do a
cat /proc/cpuinfo
or
gnome-system-monitor
you should be able to see what is going on.

Seve

[acmemetalfab]

I actually noticed while I was looking at the system monitor. No good on the hyperthread, no SMP

[Firewing1]

Try this then:
yum install kernel-smp kmod-nvidia-smp -y
yum update kernel-smp kmod-nvidia-smp -y

Reboot. If you have DRI and SMP, then remove all non-SMP kernels like this:
rpm -e kernel kmod-nvidia --allmatches
Firewing1