[mythtv-users] upgraded to nvidia 8576, want to downgrade to 7676 but can't

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 15:08:03 UTC 2006


On 4/11/06, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/04/06, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If you've been installing from the atrpms site then you should have the
>
> nvidia-graphics-switch
>
> program, and your original 7676 nvidia kernel module should still
> exist for the old kernel.  So I'd try:
>
> 1) Boot into your old kernel
> 2) Switch to runlevel 3 (to stop the X server)
> 3) type        nvidia-graphics-switch 7676
> 4) cross fingers and hope for no error messages
> 5) Ensure the old kernel is the default.
>
> This should get you back to where you were on the old kernel.  No you
> can plan how you want to move forward.
>
I tired this already and got the same error:

[root at localhost ~]# nvidia-graphics-switch 7676
Driver 7676 is not available.
[root at localhost ~]# yum install nvidia-graphics7676
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
atrpms                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
release                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package nvidia-graphics7676.i386 1:1.0_7676-68.1.rhfc4.at set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency:
nvidia-graphics7676-kmdl-1:1.0_7676-68.1.rhfc4.at for package:
nvidia-graphics7676
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-graphics7676-libs =
1:1.0_7676-68.1.rhfc4.at for package: nvidia-graphics7676
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package nvidia-graphics7676-libs.i386 1:1.0_7676-68.1.rhfc4.at
set to be updated
---> Package nvidia-graphics7676-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2.i686
1:1.0_7676-68.1.rhfc4.at set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency:
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2 for package:
nvidia-graphics7676-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2
Importing Additional filelist information for dependency resolution
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency:
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2 is needed by package
nvidia-graphics7676-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2
[root at localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.15-1.1833_FC4


So the yum  upgrade last night must have removed something and now I
cant get it back.


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