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From: Thomas P Brisco on 30 Aug 2007 05:34

I know I'm probably just not googling the right phrase, so "get a clue"
suggestions please include good google terms :)

I've started having some problems with an IDE DVD DL writing (hangs, not
very useful) with the 2.6.22.2-42 and would like to back off to the
2.6.20 last supported under FC6. (I believe that the 2.6.20 supported the
Marvell chipset on the Intel 965).

Trouble is; I can't even seem to find it with yum - I can't even "search"
and get the current kernel. I've an nVidia card, so I want to get the
associated nvidia kernel module as well -- which I assume will come with
the kernel (or if I can discover the right nvidia module name, that
should pull the kernel).

Is there an obvious HOWTO on this somewhere? I feel like I'm missing
something horribly simple, but not catching on the right keyword. I've
found quite a few things on compiling your own (ehm, ok..), but am trying
to stay within the realm of yum (which I generally use to manage the
system).

-Tom
From: General Schvantzkoph on 30 Aug 2007 08:14
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:34:34 -0500, Thomas P Brisco wrote:

> I know I'm probably just not googling the right phrase, so "get a clue"
> suggestions please include good google terms :)
>
> I've started having some problems with an IDE DVD DL writing (hangs, not
> very useful) with the 2.6.22.2-42 and would like to back off to the
> 2.6.20 last supported under FC6. (I believe that the 2.6.20 supported
> the Marvell chipset on the Intel 965).
>
> Trouble is; I can't even seem to find it with yum - I can't even
> "search" and get the current kernel. I've an nVidia card, so I want to
> get the associated nvidia kernel module as well -- which I assume will
> come with the kernel (or if I can discover the right nvidia module name,
> that should pull the kernel).
>
> Is there an obvious HOWTO on this somewhere? I feel like I'm missing
> something horribly simple, but not catching on the right keyword. I've
> found quite a few things on compiling your own (ehm, ok..), but am
> trying to stay within the realm of yum (which I generally use to manage
> the system).
>
> -Tom

If you want to stick with a specific kernel you should build one
yourself. Download a 2.6.20.xx kernel from kernel.org and build it, then
install the Nvidia drivers using the Nvidia script. Building a kernel is
easy. My procedure is as follows,

1) untar the kernel
2) Copy the .config file from the /usr/src/kernels/2.6.???/ into the
build directory. This gets all of the switches that Redhat uses.
3) Make gconfig and do a little customization. I always select the
processor type that matches the machine that I'm building for.
4) Build it
make -j 2 all >& kernel.log
make modules_install
make install
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