[wplug] geforce4 and redhat

[Coutch, Robert]

I was going to say the same thing, make sure you're logged in as root
because the rpms
built by rpmbuild will go to the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS directory.

Don't forget to run rpm -Uvh on the files you built which will be in the
directory listed above
and under an additional directory for the artitecture you built it for
(athlon, i386, i586, i686 , rtc.).


good Luck,

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: bgtrio at yahoo.com [mailto:bgtrio at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:32 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] geforce4 and redhat


Well, the "no such user - using root" thing is pretty normal, but I 
typically only see this message one time if memory serves.  I don't think 
I can help you without seeing some more of the output from the rpmbuild 
command though..

You are logged in as root, right?

B


On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Tom McCullough wrote:

> bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps the symlink /usr/src/linux is pointing to the old kernel source 
> >directory, so it's trying to use the wrong headers?  That's caught me
more 
> >than once.
> >
> >Incidentally, I use the source rpms and they really do work pretty well, 
> >but be aware that the syntax has changed as of redhat 8.0; you have to
run 
> >the command 
> >
> >rpmbuild --rebuild NV...kernel...src.rpm
> >rpmbuild --rebuild NV...GLX...src.rpm
> >
> >then go into the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 folder and get the newly built

> >rpms that you now have to install in the usual way.
> >
> >I'm reallly wishing now that I had gotten a Radeon instead of a Geforce2,

> >since there appears to be no hope of getting Nvidia to play nice with the

> >dri driver developers.
> >
> >Bryon
> >  
> >
> That didn't work for me.  I downloaded to my root directory and ran the 
> above command.
> I got several errors
> 
> user buildmeister does not exist - using root
> group buildmeister does not exist - using root
> (same two lines over again)
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32617 (%install)
> 
> What did I do wrong this time???
> tom...............
> 
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