On 7/3/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:02:00 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > But I did the nvidia installation as instructed in > http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html#nvidia > > I checked if kmod-nvidia is really installed or not through rpm and it > says > it is installed. > ------------------ > $ rpm -q kmod-nvidia > kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-2.2.6.17_1.2139_FC5 > ---------------------- > > Now I am confused. > what you should be paying attention to is the installation instructions from the livna repo instead: http://rpm.livna.org/ also note that the news post from March 29th points out that the steps necessary have changed. (hopefully they'll get around to updating or appending the original instructions to reflect the change) This having been said, I should warn you that with the current kmod-nvidia I experienced quite a bit of error WRT memory corruption that reflected back into swap, which reflected back into what actually got onto / -- I wound up having to manually fsck /, redo my swap partition, and uninstall kmod-nvidia, after which my problems went away. Fortunately I was able to get quite a bit of debuginfo that will get forwarded on to the lovely nvidia folks with a pound of thanks for not open-sourcing their drivers so things like this could get caught sooner. =P my advice: live without kmod-nvidia for now. It's *not* ready for prime-time; not because of livna but because of nvidia themselves. Many thanks to Mike Harris for straightening me on this, and for assistance with the recovery process. Cheers dude, where do I send the beer? :)
What makes you so convinced that the nvidia X driver caused this mess, and not hardware problems, or some other bug? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
