Ok. Then I guess following is making trouble for you. In a previous mail you posted to have installed
# rpm -qa kernel* kernel-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-16 kernel-doc-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl-1.0.5336-0.lvn.3.1 kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.101.fedora kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl kernel-uml-2.4.18-19.8.0
Uninstall kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl, so that you have only the kernel source for kernel .2179. Normally it is enough to have only one kernel source installed. Did you manually install the packages using rpm -i? Else kernel-source would be automatically installed with rpm -U.
Alexander
I did the kernel upgrade using yum update. I understand now how this extraneous kernel-source could give a problem! Armed with a good night's sleep, a couple of cups of coffee, and a quiet house, I'm going to have a fresh shot at it now.
Thanks very much! I'll report back when I'm done having a go at it.
I sincerely appreciate the group's willingness to hang in there with me on this.
Clint
I wasn't successful :-(
However, I have new information to report. I am able to get the driver to work immediately after compiling it with the 2179 kernel by startx in run level 3. But when I reboot -- whether I am in run level 3 or 5 -- the error message below appears:
nvidia.o module for 2.4.22-1.2179.nptl not found Disabling nvidia driver
I now look back at my original post, and believe that my description of the symptoms was not complete. I was starting X immediately after the compiling of the driver, and the nvidia driver worked. While I was in X, I changed the run level to 5 and would reboot, only to see the nvidia driver not work. In other words, I do not believe I ever tested a *reboot* in run level 3!! I believe my current situation is a more accurate and complete description of the symptoms:
- nvidia driver works in 2179 when starting X immediately after compiling the driver following artoo's instructions exactly.
- nvidia.o module for the 2179 kernel isn't available when I'm booting, thus the driver isn't starting when X starts, no matter whether I am in run level 3 or 5.
and
- nvidia driver and module work fine when booting into 2174.
While I'd like to get this thing going for the 2179 kernel, I wonder -- since this is a personal home desktop with only one user, me -- if the security features described for the 2179 kernel, might not be of a major benefit to me. I've read the description of the potential vulnerability at this site (I got the name of the potential vulnerability from fedoranews.org):
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0109
Thus, if I can't get the nvidia.o module to load for the 2179 kernel, I wonder if I will be okay to use the 2174 kernel and its associated nvidia.o module until FC2 comes out.
(I'm thinking out loud here, wondering if I ought to go back to having exclude=kernel* in my yum.conf in order to force myself to really seriously consider *if* I need a kernel upgrade rather than simply driving on full-steam-ahead and updating everything that comes along.)
Clint -- Clint Harshaw <clint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
