nvidia drivers

[George Galt]

No.  My workflow is, yum update (installing new kernel).  No reboot, cd
into SPEC directory, rpmbuild -bb kmod.nvidia.spec, cd into RPMS/x86_64 (or
i686 if that is your arch) and yum localinstall kmod-...., then reboot.


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Allen <ra at ra.is> wrote:

>
> [ra at hamburger ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
> Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
>
> [ra at hamburger ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia
> kmod-nvidia-3.9.2-200.fc18.x86_64-319.17-1.fc18.1.x86_64
> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-27.fc18.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-319.17-1.fc18.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-319.17-1.fc18.x86_64
> nvidia-settings-1.0-31.fc18.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64-319.17-1.fc18.1.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-319.17-1.fc18.i686
> kmod-nvidia-319.17-1.fc18.1.x86_64
> nvidia-settings-desktop-1.0-31.fc18.x86_64
>
> I managed to build the srpm's without much issue (and without changing
> anything).  I did have issues installing the resulting rpm's but I solved
> that by removing the old nvidia software.
>
> My only remaining problem is when new kernels are released in updates.  I
> have to boot the new kernel to runlevel 3 and rebuild the kmod again.  But
> Im sure there is a much better way to do that :)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Rikki
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Galt" <george.galt at gmail.com>
> > To: "RPM Fusion users discussion list" <
> rpmfusion-users at lists.rpmfusion.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 29 May, 2013 3:07:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: nvidia drivers
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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