[mythtv-users] OT nvidia driver mess please help

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Thu Dec 28 20:19:05 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Jon Bishop wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Gregg wrote:
> 
> > i am trying to upgrade to nvidia 9746.  I get the rpms via yum and run
> > nvidia-graphics-switch 9746  it works when I startx from command line,
> > but if I reboot I get.  I am running fc5.2239
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!  
> > Please ensure
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0):     that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this  
> > system, and
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0):     that the NVIDIA device files have been created  
> > properly.
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> > (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> > (II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
> > (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why it does not save the nvidia-graphics-switch  
> > settings?????
> >
> 
> When you install the new graphics drivers, you need to update the  
> nvidia kernel modules too. That's probably the problem.

I just read the readme... for the 97xx series of drivers, they pulled a
LOT of cards out of the "supported" list... depending on the card, one
might need to stick with the 96xx series of drivers.  Current one is
9631.

	-Ian
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