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

[Matt Barber]

Juan,

Terrific news.  Thanks for the info -- I'm sorry I missed your
february post.  Note that my method still works for Fedora 7 - I
suppose I should not have assumed that things hadn't changed for 8.
This change is for the better, though, and makes the drivers a lot
more flexible.  If you're running 8, could you take a look and see
what happens if you try to compile the fglrx drivers using the same
method?  I'll get to it later this week, but I'm anxious to know...


Thanks,

Matt

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Juan I Reyes
<juanig at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 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
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