Selon Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Am Di, den 24.08.2004 schrieb Edward um 3:38: > > > > I have a problem with nvidia driver and XFree: At every boot something > --I don't > > > know what, this thing doesn't sign its crime!-- write a new XF86Config > file and > > > overwrite MY XF86Config writen according to the instructions given by > nvidia; > > > example: nvidia tells to replace "Driver nv" which is obsolete, by > "Driver > > > nvidia" and the monster everytime replaces "nvidia" by "nv". > > > I have NEVER heard of that happening. Are you running any weird > > non-standard software? Are you sure you're actually SAVING your changes > > when you modify? Have you tried running in mode 3 just to test all this > > so you can start and stop X at will? If running multiple configurations, > > are you sure what you're modifying and the one configuration that's > > actually being used are the same? > > > Ed. > > I remember someone else had exactly the same problem some month ago. > Unfortunately I do not remember what was causing the problem. A good > search through the list archive should point out what it was. > > Alexander I have found (I hope to have...) the problem: I have update the kernel (now running last one for FC1: 2199...) and I saw that there was rpm package for nvidia drivers that livna.org recommands to use instead of nividia-installer: so I installed this package for the kernel. yum installed nvidia-glx-1.0.6106-0.lvn.4.1 and this package is bugged: 1- there is a contradiction beetween the /etc/rc.d/init.d/nvidia script and the python script which is installed to enable or desable nvidia driver 2- When the /etc/rc.d/init.d/nvidia script is in use (and it is enabled by default from rpm installation) the X xession crashes at boot time and gdm tries to recover using /etc/X11/gdm/XKeepsCrashing script and it is this script which calls redhat-config-xfree86.... redhat-config-xfree86 is not correctly updated: all the nvidia cards are supposed to use the "nv" driver.... It is now named nvidia. So, as Edward said, there is no monster, there is only old-fashioned config softwares... ( I did not find again where is the database for video cards that redhat-config-xfree86 reads to write XF86Config file...) -- François Patte Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde Université René Descartes - Paris 5 UFR de mathématiques et informatique http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
