On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 15:02 -0500, Katalichenka, Sergey wrote: > I have logged in as root (I do not have compiz enabled under that user), > removed the offending package and installed the update. Then I rebooted. > It all seemed to work fine, glxinfo shows the new driver in place. > > I just founded it odd that yum would have problem updating that package. > >From what I can see on my system, previous updates to that RPM were left > in place: > > kmod-nvidia.i686 100.14.19-1.2.6.23.1_1 > installed > kmod-nvidia.i686 169.07-1.2.6.23.8_34.f > installed > kmod-nvidia.i686 100.14.19-1.2.6.22.9_9 > installed > kmod-nvidia.i686 100.14.19-1.2.6.23.1_2 > installed > > See all old kernel versions still hanging about. That's fine. The modules built for each kernel should not be removed if you want to be able to use the driver with the old kernels. I would guess that Livna will not be building new kmod-nvidia RPMs for old kernels anyway. You could, but it seems to be rather complicated and requires several Livna infrastructure RPMs to do it. > > Anyway, I think it maybe related that the yum's kmod bug, they working > on right now. I thought that was fixed in the latest yum, no? > > Thank you. People on this list prefer that you not top-post. You should add your replies below the message you are replying to. Thanks. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:51 PM > To: For users of Fedora > Subject: Re: livna FC7 169.07 update problems. > > > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:46 -0500, Sergey Katalichenka wrote: > > Pasted from wrong window: > > file /lib/modules/2.6.23.8-34.fc7/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko from > install of > kmod-nvidia-169.07-1.2.6.23.8_34.fc7 conflicts with file from > package > kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-1.2.6.23.8_34.fc7 > > I installed 169.07 with no problem, but I didn't have 100.14.19 > installed before. > > Try switching to runlevel 3, removing the old ones and re-installing the > new ones. > > This sounds like it could be a packaging bug where the new one doesn't > obsolete the old. > > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:44 -0500, Sergey Katalichenka wrote: > > > Does any one else has a problem updating to the latest nvidia > drivers > > from livna? > > > > Error: > > kmod-nvidia - 169.07-1.2.6.23.8_34.fc7.i686 updates > kmod-nvidia - > > 100.14.19-1.2.6.23.8_34.fc7.i686 > > > > System: > > > > Linux lnx 2.6.23.8-34.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Nov 22 23:05:33 EST 2007 > i686 > > i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > --sk > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
