livna nvidia driver's not available??

GrandpaGenocide · #1 24th May 2007, 03:41 AM

ok, now that I know that the nvidia drivers provided by the company overwrite the glx files in fedora Im trying to install the livna drivers, however they dont seem to have them for kernel-2.6.21-1.3189.fc7. I have the latest updates can anyone explain how to make the livna driver work?

daihard · #2 24th May 2007, 03:53 AM

Do you have to use 2.6.21-1.3189? Livna does have the drivers for older kernels, such as 2.6.21-1.3163.

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/7/i386/

GrandpaGenocide · #3 24th May 2007, 03:56 AM

so essentially to use it I have to install the 3163 kernel or wait for livna to update the driver? such is life arghh

***Firewing1*** · #4 24th May 2007, 04:10 AM

Livna can't rebuild for each development kernel, they would be rebuilding every day because it changes so often. Normally for development we only build for at the test X releases.

I've gotten into the habit of uploading the modules I build for my F7 testing install - If you want to take a look I've got the modules and the archived kernel RPMs here or if you'd like I can show you how to rebuild the a package for your kernel from the SRPM.

Firewing1

GrandpaGenocide · #5 24th May 2007, 04:20 AM

that would be much appreciated, I tried to do it myself and it didnt work out haha.
ok so I have nvidia-kmod-1.0.9755-3.2.6.21_1.3163.fc7.src.rpm

***Firewing1*** · #6 24th May 2007, 04:30 AM

I just send you a PM, but the basics are:

Code:

rpmbuild --rebuild name.src.rpm --define 'kvariants ""' --define 'kversion build_against_this_version'

Firewing1

GrandpaGenocide · #7 24th May 2007, 04:42 AM

[root@localhost Desktop]# rpmbuild --rebuild nvidia-kmod*src*.rpm --define 'kvariants ""' --define 'kversion VERSION'
Installing nvidia-kmod-1.0.9755-3.2.6.21_1.3163.fc7.src.rpm
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
error: Architecture is not included: i386

is the result