21 March, 2006

Ha-le-lu-ja! Ha-le-lu-ja! Hibernation! Hibernation! Hi-be-e-rna-tion!

Hibebrnation finally works in Fedora 5. NVIDIA divers installed the way described below, however, seems to dislike the hibernation, especcially the wakin up part. Anyway, here is a way to enable the NVIDIA drivers under Fedora 5. (Note: Fedora 5 came with kernel version 2.6-15-2669_FC5, but was upgraded using yum to 2.6.16-1.2069_FC5)
su -
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5/kernels.repo
yum install rpm-build
yum install kernel-devel -y
yum update kernel kernel-devel -y
mkdir /root/nvidia
cd /root/nvidia
wget http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedorarpms/MISC.lvn/graphics/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8178-0.lvn.5.i386.rpm
wget http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedorarpms/MISC.lvn/graphics/nvidia-kmod-1.0.8178-0.lvn.3.2.6.15_1.1881_FC5.src.rpm
reboot
select the new kernel, then:
su -
cd /root/nvidia
rpmbuild --rebuild --target `uname -m` nvidia-kmod-*.src.rpm
cp -a /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/`uname -m`/kmod-nvidia* ./
rpm -Uvh kmod-*nvidia-1.0.8178-0.*.rpm xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8178-0.lvn.5.i386.rpm
modprobe nvidia
chkconfig nvidia-glx on
service nvidia-glx start
nvidia-xconfig
reboot

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