Re: NVidia from Livna seems to have broken X

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Lonni J Friedman schrieb:
> On 10/31/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Roo schrieb:
>>> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:23:28 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not seeing this exact issue, apologies if I missed it I installed
>>>> NVidia drivers from Livna on a working FC6 On reboot, it gets all the
>>>> way to the second X start and the screen then just goes black and
>>>> nothing happens I tried booting into runlevel 3 the old way by typing
>>>> "a" when the splash screen came up, and typing "3" at the prompt - that
>>>> didn't work Next time I typed "runlevel3" at the prompt, and that led to
>>>> same result as above, but in a much shorter boot time - just a black
>>>> screen Tried booting into runlevel1 with the same result Anyone else
>>>> encountered this?
>>> It's a known problem with the beta drivers. You need this:
>>>
>>> modprobe -r eeprom
>>>
>>> as root, before X starts.
>> Is it that bad that we (livna developers) should integrate that into the
>> package? Anyone interested in doing that?
> 
> It would prolly make alot more sense to integrate the driver patch
> which fixes the bug:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=996233&postcount=20

Done, updated kmod should be out in lvn-testing soon. The main packages
were also updated -- aiglx *shold* simply work after installing now.
There should be no need to modify the xorg.conf manually anymore.

CU
thl


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