François Patte wrote:
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
Yes I had similar problems with the Livna rpms but since moving upto 2 I use ATrpms version of the nVidia6111 driver and it works very well.
david
