[mythtv-users] Infamous yum upgrade screwed up my nvidia drivers...

[jack snodgrass]

On 9/15/06, Trey Thompson <trey at verustech.com> wrote:
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> OK, well, I didn't know this would hurt until after I did…  "Sir, please
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> Well, I was installing my new PVR-500, and one of the How-Tos said to do a
> 'yum upgrade'.  Well, this upgraded 146 packages or something, and now my
> nvidia drivers (which I only got working two days ago PERFECTLY with OpenGL
> and everything!) are hosed.  X wouldn't even start.
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> I removed them, and re-added them through Axels RPMs, which is what I did
> originally, but I can't get them to work right.  The NVidia X Server
> Settings program only has 1 page (used to have 6 or 7, including OpenGL
> settings).  And the MythFrontEnd menus take about 30 seconds to draw/fade
> in.
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> How can I completely kill/remove and re-install properly everything related
> to my video drivers?  OR…  What else is wrong?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Trey
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I use the livna repository to upate the nvidia drivers.
They keep their nvidia stuff up to date with the
changes in the kernel. When ever you load a new
kernel, you have to load the new nvidia drivers.

Someone mentioned running some script.... I just
run yun update and it automatically gets
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.lvn5
kmod-nvidia-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-32bit-1.0.8774-1.lvn5
( that match the latest kernel installed on your system ( 8774 in
this case ) from the livna repostory.

jack