Fedora 10 X86_64 help!

[Freakahol]

Okay, I have read and tried things in Fedora 9 tutorials and have ended up seriously failing my system... have had to reinstall 4 times due to problems with xserver, etc...

I need to install Nvidia drivers without restarting and seeing x wont start.

I need to install VLC (livna is having issues, ... [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found etc... arrrrrrg).

Need to install compiz... without having my whole screen turn white and rebooting to more issues.

Thank you guys, remember I am on Fedora 10 X86_64.

[leigh123linux]

Moved to Alpha-Beta (Fedora 10 Only) !


1. Nvidia

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=196182

2. VLC

http://leigh123.homelinux.com/vlc/

su
yum install wget
wget http://leigh123.homelinux.com/vlc/livna-devel.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/livna-devel.repo
wget http://leigh123.homelinux.com/vlc/vlc-0.9.1-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm
wget http://leigh123.homelinux.com/vlc/vlc-core-0.9.1-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm
yum --nogpgcheck install vlc-0.9.1-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm vlc-core-0.9.1-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm

[Freakahol]

Moved to Alpha-Beta (Fedora 10 Only) !


1. Nvidia

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=196182

Thanks, trying now.

[Freakahol]

wget: unable to resolve host address `www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk'

[leigh123linux]

Thanks, trying now.


I have also posted instructions for VLC 0.9.1 ( the latest stable release )

[scottro]

Hm, the address is working here. Could it be a network issue? Can you ping (or reach) google and the like?

Also, (I'm only mentioning this because you're new to the forums, but of course, I have no way of guessing if you're new to Linux) remember that Fedora 10 is still VERY alpha and things break all the time.

So, you're saying you need X Y and Z to work, but in F10, there's no real guarantee that _anything_ will work.

[Freakahol]

Hm, the address is working here. Could it be a network issue? Can you ping (or reach) google and the like?

Also, (I'm only mentioning this because you're new to the forums, but of course, I have no way of guessing if you're new to Linux) remember that Fedora 10 is still VERY alpha and things break all the time.

So, you're saying you need X Y and Z to work, but in F10, there's no real guarantee that _anything_ will work.

Resolving leigh123.homelinux.com... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `leigh123.homelinux.com'

yea certain sites and stuff wont load, I thought I had fixed that problem though... guess not

[leigh123linux]

wget: unable to resolve host address `www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk'



Try this site instead for the patch!


wget http://leigh123.homelinux.com/patch-no-xen.patch

[Freakahol]

Try this site instead for the patch!


wget http://leigh123.homelinux.com/patch-no-xen.patch

wget: unable to resolve host address `leigh123.homelinux.com'

[leigh123linux]

wget: unable to resolve host address `leigh123.homelinux.com'

I have attached the patch to the forum .

[Freakahol]

attempted it, failed, kernel version if necessary is 2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.x86_64, heres error log

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Sun Aug 31 13:35:33 2008
installer version: 1.0.7

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
no X server check : false
no cc version check : false
force tls : (not specified)
force compat32 tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
compat32 install chroot : (not specified)
compat32 install prefix : (not specified)
compat32 install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Tagging shared libraries with chcon -t textrel_shlib_t.
-> License accepted.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 177.68.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
-> Performing CC sanity check with CC="cc".
-> Performing CC version check with CC="cc".
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems,
for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM
installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed,
you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path'
command line option.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

[leigh123linux]

Post


rpm -qa |grep kernel

and

uname -r

[Freakahol]

Post


rpm -qa |grep kernel

and

uname -r

[Freak@localhost ~]$ uname -r && rpm -qa |grep kernel
2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.x86_64
kerneloops-0.11-1.fc10.x86_64
kernel-firmware-2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.noarch
kernel-headers-2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.x86_64
kernel-2.6.27-0.166.rc0.git8.fc10.x86_64
kernel-2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.x86_64

Everything looks latest to me.

[Freakahol]

In volume control I get back error-
audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not open audio device for playback.You don't have permission to open the device.

when I try to test my audio in sound preferences... wtf?

[leigh123linux]

[Freak@localhost ~]$ uname -r && rpm -qa |grep kernel
2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.x86_64
kerneloops-0.11-1.fc10.x86_64
kernel-firmware-2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.noarch
kernel-headers-2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.x86_64
kernel-2.6.27-0.166.rc0.git8.fc10.x86_64
kernel-2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.x86_64

Everything looks latest to me.


It works OK here !


You did omit these part ? ( you don't need it with kernel-2.6.27-0.290.rc5.fc10.x86_64 )

## no longer needed in kernel-2.6.27-0.272.rc4.fc10 and above !!
ln -sf /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include/asm /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include/asm-x86
##