Hi all,<br><br>First of all, thanks for your help Matt, Juan and Hector. I couldn't have done it without you. I tried following Matt's instructions but ran into a roadblock when I discovered that the spec file had changed and I couldn't edit it properly to get the desired result. Then I stumbled upon the rpmfusion site and realized that we are now in the world of kmod "2.0". No more fiddling with the spec file. Just add a couple of prameters to the rpmbuild command line and kmodtool does the rest.<br>
<br>I followed the instructions here:<br><br><a href="http://rpmfusion.org/Packaging/KernelModules/Kmods2#head-a6ef94d0e888ea41a2335d30fe7da26814e23f8f">http://rpmfusion.org/Packaging/KernelModules/Kmods2#head-a6ef94d0e888ea41a2335d30fe7da26814e23f8f</a><br>
<br>and the nvidia driver installed on the planetccrma kernel without incident. Nice!<br><br>When I rebooted, however, I was still having the same problems with extra characters being emitted when I press keys on the keyboard, erratic mouse behavior and Xwindows freezing eventually. I did a little more research and decided to try out the latest testing kernel from planetccrma. Good decision. I installed it, then installed the nvidia kernel module again for the new kernel and was pleasantly surprised to find out that I now had a working system with none of the problems described above. Good response, no perceivable delays in X.<br>
<br>Thanks again, all. I've been struggling with this for about a week and it's such a good feeling to finally be at this stage of the process.<br><br>Next, I installed the planetccrma-apps package. Now I have a new problem. JACK. It seems to start up when needed, but then exits immediately with status 1. I will do some more research and see if I can get it working on my own. If I can't though, I'm wondering if I should continue bleating about it in this topic or start a new topic for the JACK problem?<br>
<br>Paul<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Matt Barber <<a href="mailto:brbrofsvl@gmail.com">brbrofsvl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Juan,<br>
<br>
Terrific news. Thanks for the info -- I'm sorry I missed your<br>
february post. Note that my method still works for Fedora 7 - I<br>
suppose I should not have assumed that things hadn't changed for 8.<br>
This change is for the better, though, and makes the drivers a lot<br>
more flexible. If you're running 8, could you take a look and see<br>
what happens if you try to compile the fglrx drivers using the same<br>
method? I'll get to it later this week, but I'm anxious to know...<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
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Matt<br>
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Juan I Reyes<br>
<<a href="mailto:juanig@ccrma.stanford.edu">juanig@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Matt,<br>
><br>
> Sorry for getting so late to this post. I used your instructions for<br>
> kmod-nvidia for a while, but on F8 I could not use them anymore (thanks<br>
> a lot). I sent a post to PlanetCCRMA last February with the procedure I<br>
> am using now:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2008-February/014423.html" target="_blank">http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2008-February/014423.html</a><br>
><br>
> Looks like Livna is using RPM Fusion in order to facilitate KMOD<br>
> compilation in different Kernels.<br>
><br>
> Once I have the KMOD SRPM, All I have to do is to compile kmod-nvidia<br>
> module for a ccrma rt kernel as:<br>
><br>
> 'rpmbuild -ba --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target i686 \<br>
> nvidia-kmod.spec'<br>
><br>
> --* Juan<br>
><br>
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 11:35 -0400, Matt Barber wrote:<br>
>> By the way,<br>
>><br>
>> After you install the kmod-nvidia package, you might have trouble with<br>
>> yum update when there's a fedora kernel update, since it will try<br>
>> to update to the new one rather than install the new one (I think this<br>
>> causes a dependency conflict because kernels are installonly by<br>
>> default in yum, but updating tries to take away the old kmod-nvidia<br>
>> package - again, someone who knows yum better please advise).<br>
>><br>
>> I am thinking you can fix this by adding "kmod-nvidia" to an<br>
>> installonlypkgs line in yum.conf -- or if you don't want to do that,<br>
>> if you get an error from yum update saying you have dependency<br>
>> issues involving kmod-nvidia I have found success by running<br>
>><br>
>> yum install kernel kmod-nvidia<br>
>><br>
>> first before running yum update.<br>
>><br>
>> Best,<br>
>><br>
>> Matt<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kind Regards,<br><br>Paul Vallee<br><a href="mailto:pv.vallee@gmail.com">pv.vallee@gmail.com</a><br><br>.