Re: Fedora Core 6 freshrpms.net packages

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:54:03 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Zod is here, Zod is here! And for the very first time, we have a default
> eye-candy filled desktop you can spend hours playing with! Wobbly
> windows! Workspaces on a cube! Update now! (1)
> 
> And since there is now accelerated OpenGL for many ATI video cards using
> the free driver (worked for me on a cheap only 6 months old PCI-express
> ATI card), but still no free driver that supports accelerated 3D for
> Nvidia cards, all you need to do to get the binary Nvidia driver is
> enable the freshrpms.net repository, run this and reboot :
> 
> yum install nvidia-x11-drv

Quick warning for FC6 users. FC6 seems to have a habit of installing i586
kernel packages on some i686 machines. I also had i686 devel packages
installed. This difference caused both the official Nvidia install and
these rpms to whinge about not being able to find the source and then bomb
out. Watch out for it.

The solution, in my case, was:

1. download the i686 version of the kernel

2. rpm -ivh --force kernel.xxxxx.i686.rpm

3. reboot

and I reinstalled the NVIDIA stuff for good measure.

Oh, and if you get a blank screen which you can't quit from... try

modprobe -r eeprom

as root before starting X... that worked for me. It seems to be a known
bug in the beta versions.