On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 08:39 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I have yet to successfully get yum to download the Livna NVidia drivers, > so I thought I'd just grab the RPMs directly from rpm.livna.org and > install by hand. This is the result. This happens even after I run > "system-config-display --reconfig" before installing. Any clues, anyone? > > TIA. > > $ sudo rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-4.lvn6.i386.rpm > kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948.fc6.i686.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### > [100%] > 1:kmod-nvidia ########################################### [ 50%] > 2:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia ########################################### [100%] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 146, in ? > app = nvidiaConfigDisplay() > File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 52, in __init__ > self.run() > File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 129, in run > self.enable() > File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 67, in enable > self.toggleDriver(currentDriver, self.majorVendor) > File > "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py", > line 119, in toggleDriver > dev.driver = newDriver > TypeError: Expected a string > > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > Hi, Matthew, I had the same issue last week. I discovered that the downloaded driver was too short (something like 12Mb vs 27Mb if IRC). I downloaded again and it got the full thing and worked correctly. Regards, Les H
