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[quote="Veganbikepunk"]I went to a guide to installing the driver for my NVIDIA graphics card to have 3d support, but in order to install it I obviously need to kill X. So I do Control-Alt-F1, but it says X is still running, so I do Telinit 3, but when I do that it tries to kill the services from Init 4 or 5 (i'm not sure which), but stalls on Starting Jexec Services, and I have to control-alt-delete to a reboot after a while of it not working. Thanks in advance for you help (A)//(E)[/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>jebba</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:38 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>gr00ve wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">bash package looks borked - it goes up to about 80% on update and quits. looks like apt-get update to yum solves this.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I'm not sure what's up there. To get around it, run: <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">rpm -Uvh http://www.blagblagblag.org/70000/i386/RPMS.errata/bash-3.2-19.fc7.i386.rpm</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />bash bugzilla: <br /><a href="http://bugzilla.blagblagblag.org/show_bug.cgi?id=993" target="_blank">http://bugzilla.blagblagblag.org/show_bug.cgi?id=993</a></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>gr00ve</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:19 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">bash package looks borked - it goes up to about 80% on update and quits. looks like apt-get update to yum solves this.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>sinuhe</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:49 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Nvidia / Init 3 problem</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Veganbikepunk wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I went to a guide to installing the driver for my NVIDIA graphics card to have 3d support, but in order to install it I obviously need to kill X. So I do Control-Alt-F1, but it says X is still running, so I do Telinit 3, but when I do that it tries to kill the services from Init 4 or 5 (i'm not sure which), but stalls on Starting Jexec Services, and I have to control-alt-delete to a reboot after a while of it not working. Thanks in advance for you help (A)//(E)</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I'm surprised by a few things that have been left out in other posts. First, have you checked whether the specific Nvidia chipset you have is supported by the xorg-x11-drv-nv package? By a newer version (from freedesktop.org) not yet packaged? <br /> <br />Second, updating your configuration for display is fairly painless with system-config-display. Do an init3, which will not present a prompt after completed, so perhaps press enter for a prompt. Run "system-config-display --reconfig," verify you are using the correct monitor and video driver, and use the toggle menus to make your modifications. <br /> <br />Hope that helps.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>jebba</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:35 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>s6k wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">yum update</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I got the following error <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">Error Downloading Packages: <br /> nautilus-sendto - 0.12-1.fc7.i386: failure: nautilus-sendto-0.12-1.fc7.i386.rpm from errata: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. <br /> bash - 3.2-19.fc7.i386: failure: bash-3.2-19.fc7.i386.rpm from errata: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. <br /></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />uh. I have fixed a few things related to `yum` and the repos, but apparently not everything. Try a `yum clean all` and then `yum update`. If that doesn't work, use apt. :) `apt-get udpate` then `apt-get dist-upgrade` for example.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>s6k</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:47 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Thanks Jebba, <br />I really like the idea and the OS, Thanks for the suggestion on the burning program. I'm currently reading around the web trying to increase my Linux skill . And thanks Gr00ve for the advice, I was under the impression that Livna was a free source and not just a repackaging of NVIDIA's stuff. I'll be interested in a 3-d graphics driver when a free one is out, freedom is worth waiting for. <br />one thing though when i did run <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">yum update</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I got the following error <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">Error Downloading Packages: <br /> nautilus-sendto - 0.12-1.fc7.i386: failure: nautilus-sendto-0.12-1.fc7.i386.rpm from errata: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. <br /> bash - 3.2-19.fc7.i386: failure: bash-3.2-19.fc7.i386.rpm from errata: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. <br /></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />any ideas? <br />//sunny//</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>gr00ve</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:42 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>s6k wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> i followed the directions but the installer was unable to find the kernel source???? <br />what is it and how do i down load that from blag?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br /> <br />1) yum clean all <br />2) yum update (just to make sure you have the latest kernel & etc, otherwise don;t need to do this) <br />3) yum install gcc binutils make <br />4) yum install kernel-devel <br />5) <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us" target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us</a> select * download the driver corresponding to your vid card <br />6) chmod 555 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-xxx.xx.xx-pkg1.run <br />7) telinit 3 <br />8) ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-xxx.xx.xx-pkg1.run <br />when prompted to download prebuilt module say no <br />9) upon booting and hopefully getting x to start run nvidia-settings to fine tune settings <br />if it doesn't start either telinit 5 or ctrl + alt + f7 if all else fails post what the config for x looks like</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>jebba</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:22 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>s6k wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">i just don't understand a lot of what everyone is talking about. i did find this article <br /><a href="http://aptgetanarchy.org/blag/nvidia" target="_blank">http://aptgetanarchy.org/blag/nvidia</a> <br />[/url]http://aptgetanarchy.org/blag/nvidia[url] <br /> i followed the directions but the installer was unable to find the kernel source???? <br />what is it and how do i down load that from blag? <br />also its kinda getting frustrated, </td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I'd say until you learn more, if you're really getting frustrated stop with the proprietary nvidia thing. It's /their/ fault they don't make truly Free drivers. <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>s6k wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">earlier i tried to down load a torrent file from pirate bay and it downloaded with miro. I have down loaded a billion things off pirate bay with XP using Azureus but i could get the download manager to offer anything other Miro,</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Menu->Internet->BitTorrent File Transfer <br /> <br />Try that program instead of Miro, which is meant to be more like a full blown "internet tv". <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>s6k wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">then i tried to burn the torrent using QDVD Author but was met with additional errors and unable to.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />qdvdauthor is not for burning CDs, but more for making DVD menus and stuff like that. <a href="http://lwn.net" target="_blank">http://lwn.net</a> did an article about it (and DVDStyler) recently. I think the very best burning program is `k3b`, but it isn't on the CD since it drags in lots of KDE stuff. If you have enough RAM (like 512M or so) download that and check it out. <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>s6k wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I did all this things fine on xp but I hate the Microsoft Corpo-rape take over of the world.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />You can burn CDs and download bittorrents with BLAG. <br /> <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>s6k wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I thought also maybe a video of basic instructions of the various task and even how to use a few programs would be good instead of a video what blag looks like after the distro is installed(referring to "support videos" in the support forum)</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Yes, that's a good idea. John is heading that way, methinks. <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>s6k wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I going to give a few more go's before i toss in my dell Xp recovery disk and go back to being Bill Gates concubine. If any know the answers to the questions above i greatly appreciate it.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Yuck. Anyway, try to do it /truly/ free without the proprietary crap if you're going to try it. It seems you've spent a good deal of time trying to force some non-Free binary into BLAG. Don't take it out on BLAG that crap binary things don't work! <br /> <br />-Jeff</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>s6k</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:41 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">i just don't understand a lot of what everyone is talking about. i did find this article <br /><a href="http://aptgetanarchy.org/blag/nvidia" target="_blank">http://aptgetanarchy.org/blag/nvidia</a> <br />[/url]http://aptgetanarchy.org/blag/nvidia[url] <br /> i followed the directions but the installer was unable to find the kernel source???? <br />what is it and how do i down load that from blag? <br />also its kinda getting frustrated, earlier i tried to down load a torrent file from pirate bay and it downloaded with miro. I have down loaded a billion things off pirate bay with XP using Azureus but i could get the download manager to offer anything other Miro, then i tried to burn the torrent using QDVD Author but was met with additional errors and unable to. I did all this things fine on xp but I hate the Microsoft Corpo-rape take over of the world. I thought also maybe a video of basic instructions of the various task and even how to use a few programs would be good instead of a video what blag looks like after the distro is installed(referring to "support videos" in the support forum) no doubt thats what scares most people away from Linux they just don't understand it. All i have learned has been from this forum and others online. I going to give a few more go's before i toss in my dell Xp recovery disk and go back to being Bill Gates concubine. If any know the answers to the questions above i greatly appreciate it. <br />Thanks <br />//sunny//[/url]</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>extraspecialbitter</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:47 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>jebba wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>extraspecialbitter wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">The problem is that Red Hat doesn't support XFS</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />You sure? It's there in fedora (and used to be in redhat last i used it). It isn't a "supported" system in that they don't recommend it to customers, but it's in the kernel (at least fedora): <br /> <br />/lib/modules/2.6.23.12-52.fc7/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I thought it very bizarre that Fedora and CentOS would support XFS and that Red Hat wouldn't, but an exhaustive search through the Red Hat Network turned up empty. Ultimately our Account Rep confirmed what I had read through a source as authoritative as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS" target="_blank" class="postlink">Wikipedia</a> - that Red Hat had stripped the XFS module (among others) out of the 2.6 kernel and had no plans to support the filesystem in the future, instead putting all of their eggs in the ext4 basket. Imagine the surreal experience of showing up at a customer site with a USB stick full of "unsanctioned" packages in hand...</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>jebba</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:01 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>extraspecialbitter wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">The problem is that Red Hat doesn't support XFS</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />You sure? It's there in fedora (and used to be in redhat last i used it). It isn't a "supported" system in that they don't recommend it to customers, but it's in the kernel (at least fedora): <br /> <br />/lib/modules/2.6.23.12-52.fc7/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>extraspecialbitter</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:26 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>jebba wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>john maclean wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">did you run `yum -y update` before `yum install kmod-nvidia`? <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">yum update && yum install kmod-nvidia</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I dont think it's a good idea to run `yum update` with the livna repo enabled. You shouldn't do that (or a `apt-get upgrade`) when non-blag repos are enabled or you may wind up with a funky system...</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />The funkiness occurs because an "apt update" or "yum update" modifies the package cache in /var/cache/apt. This could result in duplicate packages, overwritten packages or - worse of all - packages that conflict with existing applications. It's probably best to just grab the RPM or tar file from the livna repo and install it separately, leaving your local package cache intact.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>extraspecialbitter</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:20 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>jebba wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Well you shouldnt have to re-install unless you did a dist-upgrade with another repo enabled. Even if you did that you don't necessarily need to re-install.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Agreeing with jebba here, the best way to install something from another repo - if you've decided that that's what you're going to do - is to grab only the specific RPMs needed and then to apply like so: <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code"> <br />rpm -Uvh <rpm> <br /></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I just had to do this exact thing in my workplace. A customer wanted the XFS filesystem implemented on a Red Hat host. The problem is that Red Hat doesn't support XFS, but the salesman said "of course we can do that for you if it means closing the deal". I grabbed a pair of RPMs from a CentOS repo and installed them on the system - just in time for the customer to do a 5TB data load. <br /> <br />So... "supplementing" a repo can be done, but should only be done piecemeal. Just my two pesos, mind you. <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>jebba wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> <br />I'd suggest not installing proprietary software at all, of course...There's a reason you're encountering troubles and it's due to using the non-free software. <br /> <br />-Jeff</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Well said.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>jebba</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:00 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Well you shouldnt have to re-install unless you did a dist-upgrade with another repo enabled. Even if you did that you don't necessarily need to re-install. <br /> <br />I'd suggest not installing proprietary software at all, of course...There's a reason you're encountering troubles and it's due to using the non-free software. <br /> <br />-Jeff</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>s6k</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:49 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">DOH<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal"></span> <br /> <br />alright whats the best advice, should i just reinstall 70000 and then run <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">apt-get update</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br />and then <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">yum install kmod-nvidia</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br />or am i missing something else??????????? <br />thanks for the help <br />//sunny// <br /> <br /></span></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>jebba</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:15 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>john maclean wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Doh! Would that really mess up a system that bad? How would one recover a goofy move such as I would've done?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Search these repos for people that have dist-upgraded with other repos enabled...And originally you even threw in a `-y` for good measure..</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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