[PlanetCCRMA] Need help getting realtime kernel working with Fedora 8 and nvidia

[Juan I Reyes]

Hi Matt,

Sorry for getting so late to this post. I used your instructions for
kmod-nvidia for a while, but on F8 I could not use them anymore (thanks
a lot). I sent a post to PlanetCCRMA last February with the procedure I
am using now:

http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2008-February/014423.html

Looks like Livna is using RPM Fusion in order to facilitate KMOD
compilation in different Kernels.

Once I have the KMOD SRPM,  All I have to do is to compile kmod-nvidia
module for a ccrma rt kernel as:

'rpmbuild -ba --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target i686 \
nvidia-kmod.spec'

  --* Juan 

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 11:35 -0400, Matt Barber wrote:
> By the way,
> 
> After you install the kmod-nvidia package, you might have trouble with
>  yum update   when there's a fedora kernel update, since it will try
> to update to the new one rather than install the new one (I think this
> causes a dependency conflict because kernels are installonly by
> default in yum, but updating tries to take away the old kmod-nvidia
> package - again, someone who knows yum better please advise).
> 
> I am thinking you can fix this by adding "kmod-nvidia" to an
> installonlypkgs line in yum.conf -- or if you don't want to do that,
> if you get an error from   yum update   saying you have dependency
> issues involving  kmod-nvidia  I have found success by running
> 
> yum install kernel kmod-nvidia
> 
> first before running yum update.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Matt