Re: Is RPMfusion on strike?

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On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 15:25 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 10:33 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 10:17 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > > 
> > > Additional info.
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 10:10 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > > Hi;
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 09:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 06:28 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 03:06 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > 
> > > > /var/log/messages warns:
> > > > 
> > > > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.31, but
> > > > NVRM: this kernel module has the version 185.18.14.  Please
> > > > NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
> > > > NVRM: components have the same version.
> 
> This appears to be likely to cause a problem.  The kernel module is
> likely to be the one from RPMfusion, but the client is from some other
> source (nVidia directly, maybe?).  It's not at all surprising that the
> version mismatch would cause a failure.
> 
> > > > 
> > > > But for 2.8 ]# akmods --force --kernels 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64
> > > > Checking kmods exist for 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64      [  OK  ]
> > > > 
> > > > and for 2.7;
> > > > ]# akmods --force --kernels 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64
> > > > Could not find files needed to compile modules for
> > > > 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64
> 
> I think this probably means that you don't have the kernel-devel RPM for
> that kernel.

I didn't have the 2.7 kmods.  I don't know why.  As you can see the 2.8
loaded itself successfully.  I yum'd it separately; I now have it -- but
still no joy.
> 
> > > > 
> > > ]# rpm -qa akmod-nvidia
> > > akmod-nvidia-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64
> > > 
> > > 
> > I am now running on the 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64 kernel which is
> > using the nvidia driver. According to the nvidia X server Settings gui
> > the NVIDIA Driver Version: is 185.18.31
> > 
> > Apparently a latter version than the more recent 2.7 and 2.8 kernels
> > require ?
> If you got that from RPMfusion, it's from the
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing repo.  

I am not sure whether it came from the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing
repo or not.  In frustration, at one point I might have downloaded it
from the testing repo.

> I haven't tried that yet, but
> the akmod-nvidia-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64 one is the one that worked for
> me.  

> If you didn't get it from RPMfusion, you might want to remove all
> traces of it from wherever it came from and start from scratch with
> akmod-nvidia.

Agreed.  I will remove all RPMfusion kmod related stuff and start over.


-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1

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