[mythtv-users] How do I install an older nvidia driver on Fedora 10?

[Glenn Sommer]

Did you remember to install the kernel headers before trying to
compile the nvidia driver?


2009/4/28 Niels Dybdahl <ndylist at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Due to a bug in the newest nvidia driver (v 180 see
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/NVidiaProprietaryDriver#Choppy_video.2FHigh_CPU_Usage),
> I want to install an older version (e.g v 177). I have my driver from
> rpmfusion.org, but in that repository there is no older driver compiled for
> my kernel.
> I have tried to install an older version from nvidia.com. However it can not
> find any precompiled kernel module and when it tries to compile one it fails
> with errors like:
>
> /tmp/selfgz21991/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.70.33-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv-linux.h:107:27:
> error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or folder
> /tmp/selfgz21991/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.70.33-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1279:
> error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
>
> What is the easiest way to get an older driver running? Try to change to an
> older kernel?
>
> Best regards
> Niels Dybdahl
>
>
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