On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:41, lovswr1 wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 18:35, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 08:20, lovswr1 wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 10:09, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > On 21 Nov 2002 06:22:20 -0500
> > > > lovswr1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[big snip]
> > you can get around the already installed message by using rpm -ivh
> > --force ...
>
> ok I forced
>
> root@matrix1 SPECS]# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
> [root@matrix1 i386]# ls
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.i386.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.i386.rpm
> [root@matrix1 i386]# rpm -Uvh --force NVIDIA*
>
>
> & this is what I got
>
>
> Warning: loading
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver will taint the
> kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
> See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
> tainted modules
> Module NVdriver loaded, with warnings
>
> NVdriver installed successfully
>
> --- WARNING!!
> libGL.so.1.0.3123
> --- The above file(s) possibly belong to a conflicting MESA rpm,
> --- or to a previous stale NVIDIA distribution.
> --- They have been renamed to xxx.<originalFile>.RPMSAVE to
> --- avoid conflicting with the files contained within this
> --- package.
> --- Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section of
> --- /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for more details.
> 2:NVIDIA_GLX ###########################################
> [100%]
This is fine! That what I get everytime I have to recompile NVIDIA and
reinstall it for a new kernel. Don't worry about the possibly
conflicting message, you can ignore it in this case.
--
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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