Re: nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

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> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Waleed Harbi wrote:
>>Try download nvidia driver from Nvidia web site, then download the
>>kernel-dev rpm via yum after that start the installation in level 3.
>>Nvidia they have driver for linux, and it is working fine with me.
>>
>>On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
> The kernels video API was changed withn the first 2.6.25 release
> candidate,
> and the driver available in the .12.run package will not build on 2.6.25-x
> kernels, unless they have released a new driver in the last 24 hours or
> so.
> I gave up, there is now an ati based 2400HD in this system.  But I can't
> watch tv with tvtime now, that overlay interface is missing from the
> radeonhd
> driver.

Check the nVIDIA forums.  There is a patch for this problem available for
download.

> As a tv engineer, that sucks, so I'm damned either way.

As a tv engineer, you are damned no matter what.


>
>
>>wrote:
>>> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Robin Laing wrote:
>>> >Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> >> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:51:56PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
>>> >>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> >>>>> Does that mean it will prevent a kernel from getting installed if
>>>
>>> the
>>>
>>> >>>>> matching kmdls are not available?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> No, I didn't want a security update to be ladt off if it missed a
>>> >>>> kmdl. But if you install a kernel the moment it gets released (and
>>> >>>> therefore there are no kmdls yet available) once the kmdls are
>>> there
>>> >>>> yum-plugin-kmdl will make yum update get them for you.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> .. but this is a Bad Thing when it comes to nvdia, because the next
>>>
>>> time
>>>
>>> >>> you reboot, X won't start for a few days.  In fact, most kmdls are
>>>
>>> pretty
>>>
>>> >>> important for day-to-day operations.  Clearly I can see how someone
>>>
>>> else
>>>
>>> >>> would want it to work the way you designed it, but that SO doesn't
>>>
>>> work
>>>
>>> >>> for me.
>>> >>
>>> >> Well, one can change the plugin to behave as you want, but indeed
>>> most
>>> >> users wanted to be asyncronous and not be held back by any third
>>> party
>>> >> in getting their vendor updates.
>>> >>
>>> >> If you want to experiment: In the loop where it checks whether a
>>> kmdl
>>> >> exists or not just add in the case of a failure for a lookup to
>>> unmark
>>> >> the kernel for installation. Or to add UPDATEDEFAULT=no to
>>> >> /etc/sysconfig/kernel before installing it.
>>> >
>>> >What you are discussing is exactly what dkms is supposed to correct.
>>> >
>>> >dkms(8) - Linux man page
>>> >http://linux.die.net/man/8/dkms
>>> >
>>> >dkms is a framework which allows kernel modules to be dynamically
>>> built
>>> >for each kernel on your system in a simplified and organized fashion.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Since I moved to dkms, I have not had any issues with nvidia drivers
>>> on
>>> >any machine.  :)
>>>
>>> Humm, can you say that for post 2.6.25-rc0 kernels?  I don't think so,
>>> Robin.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers, Gene
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>
>
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