RedHat 8.0(2.4.18-14) X Windows configuration problem.

[Charles Steinkuehler]

joecho at everestkc.net wrote:

> when I installed two files,
> 
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh80up_2.4.18_18.8.0.i686.rpm
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm
> 
> The reason I download the file
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh80up_2.4.18.8.0.i686.rpm
> instead of NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh80up.i686.rpm
> was that I couldn't find the exact name on the web page
> NVIDIA
> http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191

I strongly suggest you simply download the source RPM's, and build them 
on your system.  This way they will exactly match what you have 
installed, and you'll be prepared for when RedHat releases their next 
kernel upgrade (NVidia takes a while to make new RPM's available 
online).  You will need to make sure you have the kernel source or 
kernel headers installed (grab these with up2date if necessary), then just:

rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm

Install the RPM's as you normally would, following the nvidia 
instructions.  The new files will likely be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/

You can get the RPM source from the NVidia site:
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm

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Charles Steinkuehler
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