Re: Nvidia 304 series

On 13/10/12 12:53, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:48 PM, O&M Ugarcina <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>         The old nvidia packages do not build for kernel 3.6.1 (F17)
>         any more.
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>         I built the latest 304:
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>         http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms-f17-x86_64/nvidia/nvidia-graphics304.51/
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>         -- 
>         Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
>         LCG - UFRJ
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>     That's very good . Would you have a el6 64 version of that by any
>     chance . Or perhaps a srpm , I would like to try the new driver on
>     my el6 front-end .
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> My source rpms are always here:
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> http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/nvidia-graphics304.51-304.51-148.fc17.src.rpm 
> <http://people.atrpms.net/%7Epcavalcanti/srpms/nvidia-graphics304.51-304.51-148.fc17.src.rpm>
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> I did not build the new nvidia driver for rhel6,
> because the 295 series is fine for me. Only F17
> with kernel 3.6 requires the 304 series ...
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> -- 
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
Thanks for that Paulo,

One thing I was going to ask you . I am interested how do you create the 
srpm from the binary package that Nvidia makes . I would like to have a 
go at making the new 304.60 drivers into a srpm , and then into a set of 
rpms for el6 . Any information appreciated greatly .


Best Regards

Milorad