jlc Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 (edited) Just a short how-to/FYI If the new kernel isn't in updates by the time you eager beavers install Just follow this http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.ph...5561#post475561 I had to fix some things and I'm tired of cp/paste from forum to from :) OLD don't use :) to tired to delete...... $ su - # cd /etc/yum.repos.d # vi dave-kernels.repo the file cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dave-kernels.repo [dave-kernels] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Dave's Kernels baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5/RPMS.kernel/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 Update the kernel and some other things you need # yum update kernel # yum install kernel-devel fedora-rpmdevtools subversion # reboot As your user $ fedora-buildrpmtree $ cd $HOME/rpmbuild $ mkdir src.rpms && cd src.rpms The nvidia driver: $ wget -c http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/SRPMS/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8178-7.lvn5.src.rpm $ rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8178-7.lvn5.src.rpm $ cd ../SPEC $ rpmbuild -ba xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.spec The kernel module $ cd $HOME/rpmbuild/src.rpms $ svn co svn://svn.livna.org/rlo/packages/nvidia-kmod/ $ cd nvidia-kmod/devel $ cp * $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ $ cp nvidia-kmod.spec $HOME/rpmbuild/SPECS $ cd $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES $ wget -c http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedorarpms/KMODFILES.lvn/nvidia-glx-kmod-data-1.0.8178.tar.bz2 $ cd $HOME/rpmbuild/SPECS $ rpmbuild -ba nvidia-kmod.spec --target $(uname -m) Finishing up $ su - # cd $USERS_HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/${ARCH}/ # rpm -ivh kmod-nvidia* xorg-x11-drv-nvidia* # /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display enable # init 3; init 5 Done, now go play games or setup twinview..... THe same process should work for ati Edited March 20, 2006 by cybrjackle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Thanks for your contribution, cybr. I will pin this for now for our users. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted March 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Oh, edit the nvidia-kmod.spec and take out xen and kerneldump Change 1 to 0 %define buildxen 0 %define buildkdump 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Now that is just for systems updating/upgrading without doing a fresh install right? I mean you could still do a fresh install and then just wait a couple of days until Fedora releases a fix/patched kernel and then install the drivers. yes/no. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Afaik, Fedora already announced that a patched kernel will be available in a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Ok, I've been waiting for FC5 to come out and now I have it in my possesion. But I have a question: I live in the country and am stuck with dial up (because satilite internet cost too much) and I'm wondering if this would be a distro for me. I read Cyber's article and now wonder how long a kernel update would take with dial up, on a so so phone line. (I seriously have the phone company out atleast once a month, and I live down the road from the man who used to own Iams pet foods and I can't believe he hasn't gotten them to do something). Arctic,Thanks for your review, by the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Just being curious. I've recently installed FC5. But I keep reading about some kernel issues and troubles with 3D-acceleration. First of all, which kernel had these issues, as I'm currently runnin kernel 2.6.16-2080_FC5. Is this the patched one already? Secondly, I haven't found any sites which explains of how to set up Yum for FC5. They all talk about FC4 and FC3. And thirdly, is the issue of 3D-acceleration solved? I would like to install my graphic-card drivers, though I haven't figured out exactly of how to do that in FC5. I'm sorry of the questions I have, about a distro other then Mandriva. But you guys on this board have helped me out a lot in the past. And as I saw the amount of posts concerning FC5, I thought I give it a try. :mellow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Just being curious. I've recently installed FC5. But I keep reading about some kernel issues and troubles with 3D-acceleration. First of all, which kernel had these issues, as I'm currently runnin kernel 2.6.16-2080_FC5. Is this the patched one already? Secondly, I haven't found any sites which explains of how to set up Yum for FC5. They all talk about FC4 and FC3. And thirdly, is the issue of 3D-acceleration solved? I would like to install my graphic-card drivers, though I haven't figured out exactly of how to do that in FC5. I'm sorry of the questions I have, about a distro other then Mandriva. But you guys on this board have helped me out a lot in the past. And as I saw the amount of posts concerning FC5, I thought I give it a try. :mellow: 1.) 2080 is good 2.) http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_in...tion_notes.html 3.) http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=101784 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Many thanks cybrjackle. I saw a number of posts of you on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ but I've failed to see the one you gave me. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Many thanks cybrjackle. I saw a number of posts of you on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ but I've failed to see the one you gave me. Thanks again. no problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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