nvidia drivers

[George Galt]

I have been building the 310 driver for F18 for quite some time.  It works
well and builds easily.  You can information on how to build it here:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2617

I also have built the 313 drivers successfully, but haven't tried
installing them.  I did try building the 319 drivers, which built but
failed on the install.  It appears that there are some issues with the 3.9
kernel (perhaps??, not sure).


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com> wrote:

> On Qui, 2013-05-23 at 23:27 +0000, Richard Allen wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Sérgio Basto" <sergio at serjux.com>
> > > To: rpmfusion-users at lists.rpmfusion.org
> > > Sent: Thursday, 23 May, 2013 2:17:21 AM
> > > Subject: Re: nvidia drivers
> > >
> > > On Qui, 2013-05-23 at 01:25 +0000, Richard Allen wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm wondering what is going on with the nvidia drivers lately.
> > > >   For some reason we seem to be stuck at 304.XX and have been for
> > > > a rather long time.  On nvidia.com the current release is 319.17.
> > > > Reading changelogs, there are lots of items I would love to see on
> > > > my box.   Hence my question.
> > > > Why are there new newer packages for the nvidia drivers?
> > >
> > > We have new drivers but just for F19, because before they was beta .
> >
> > Hi Sérgio,
> >
> > Is there a proceedure I can use to build the f19 srpm's for f18?   Or is
> it just a simple rpmbuild --rebuild ?
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild works ... , but if you have 64 bits you might have to
> build for i686 also which is not easy with rpmbuild, so for this reason
> and others, I prefer use mock:
> mock -r fedora-18-x86_64-rpmfusion_nonfree --rebuild src.rpm
> and
> mock -r fedora-18-i386-rpmfusion_nonfree --rebuild src.rpm
>
> you need install mock and configure it
> http://www.serjux.com/alps/how_to_use_mock.txt
>
> and also install from rpmfusion
>
> mock-rpmfusion-free-19.0-1.fc18.noarch
> mock-rpmfusion-nonfree-19.0-1.fc18.noarch
>
> to have mock config files for fedora-18-x86_64-rpmfusion_nonfree.
>
> Go luck :)
> --
> Sérgio M. B.
>
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