On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 11:55 -0500, John Minson wrote: > Now that the latest kernel update (2.6.24.3-12) has broken most things > vmware wise(vmplayer in my case) what is the proper way to revert back to > > kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 and the following that go with it > > kmod-nvidia > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list The same happened to me - I wrote this to myself Can't guarantee this is the best way but it worked! fuerte hints_info 996# cat nvidia_yum_sorting_out Carrying out a kernel update and then still wanting to use the older kernel is a problem for nvidia This occurred for update from 2.6.23.15-137 to 2.6.24.3-12 Vmware would not compile with the new kernel but the update had upset the livna nvidia setup Trying to solve the problem using yum failed as it always insisted on installing the latest version of the livna files If livna nvidia drivers etc get out of step then Check the running kernel version Remove existing files yum remove kmod-nvidia-169.12-2.lvn8.x86_64 Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Removing: kmod-nvidia x86_64 169.12-2.lvn8 installed 0.0 Removing for dependencies: kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 x86_64 169.09-5.lvn8 installed 11 M kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-115.fc8 x86_64 169.09-6.lvn8 installed 11 M kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 x86_64 169.09-7.lvn8 installed 11 M kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 x86_64 100.14.19-19.lvn8 installed 8.4 M kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 x86_64 169.07-1.lvn8 installed 11 M kmod-nvidia-2.6.24.3-12.fc8 x86_64 169.12-2.lvn8 installed 11 M xorg-x11-drv-nvidia x86_64 169.12-1.lvn8 installed 5.2 M xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs x86_64 169.12-1.lvn8 installed 14 M Down load a set of matching files from livna eg fuerte nvidia 1002# ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 22003 2008-03-07 17:33 kmod-nvidia-169.09-7.lvn8.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 2814244 2008-03-07 17:34 kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.15-137.fc8-169.09-7.lvn8.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 2108868 2008-03-07 17:36 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-169.09-6.lvn8.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 5212472 2008-03-07 17:44 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-169.09-6.lvn8.x86_64.rpm yum localinstall *.rpm kernel 2.6.23.15-137 now runs OK --- for me !!!!!!!!!!! Hope it helps John
