[mythtv-users] NVidia Graphics Drivers (Easy question hopefully)

Douglas Wagner douglasw0 at gmail.com
Mon May 1 20:49:17 UTC 2006


Sorry for the confusion, when I went to see what yum would install with the
nvidia-graphics8756... package yum returned what I posted above as the
package list it (yum) wanted to install.

I don't notice any "smp" packages listed on ATRPMS under the nvidia section
(didn't do a thorough look though).  So I guess back to my original
question, the two packages I have from livna looks like it's got at least
the kernel driver installed (for the SMP Kernel, I can verify it's loading
the driver as I get the "kernel tainted" warning at boot in my
/var/log/messages file).

However, what i'm worried about, is i'm missing a potoad of utilities and
devices that I should, otherwise have.

Can anyone confirm or deny that the packages above (xorg-x11-drv-nvidia and
kmod-nvdia-smp packages listed first under the rpm -qa in my first message)
will provide all the needed details or do I need to go back to livna and try
to figure out what the other packages are from them?

--Douglas Wagner

On 5/1/06, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Douglas Wagner wrote:
> > Ok, now i'm confused:
> >
> > So I've got an nVidia FX 5700 in my system right now.  Running kernel
> > 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp.  I'm sure i've got something loaded from nVidia
> > (their binary drivers) but seeing a few messages posted to this list
> > i'm now completely unsure if I have everything I need or not.
> >
> > rpm -qa | grep nvidia provides the following:
> >
> > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8756-1.lvn5
> > kmod-nvidia-smp-1.0.8756-1.2.6.16_1.2096_FC5
> >
> > I actually got the nvidia drivers off of livna.org
> > <http://livna.org>'s yum distribution via /yum install
> > kmod-nvidia-smp. /The question is, I notice from atrpms, there are
> > several packages, looking at nvidia-graphics8756-kmdl I notice it
> > wants to install the following:
> I don't understand. What is "it" in "it wants to install..."?
>
> >
> >   nvidia-graphics8756-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5  i686
> > 1:1.0_8756-72.rhfc5.at  atrpms            1.6 M
> > Installing for dependencies:
> >  kernel                  i686       2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> > updates            13 M
> >  nvidia-graphics-devices  noarch     1.0-4.rhfc5.at
> > <http://1.0-4.rhfc5.at>   atrpms            2.8 k
> >
> > Which LOOKS like a non-SMP Kernel, and an additional
> > nvidia-graphics-devices RPM (I notice at ATRPMS there's also a
> > "helpers" rpm there as well).
> yeah, it's the regular kernel. You can install the module but it won't
> get loaded when you boot the smp kernel, it'll get included with the
> appropriate kernel at boot.
> If you have also installed the regular kernel, you'll need this module
> (and all the other modules like lirc, ivtv, if needed) for this kernel.
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