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

[Trey Thompson]

> Thomas Börkel-2 wrote:
> >
> > HI!
> >
> > Trey Thompson wrote:
> >> [root at mythtvbe recordings]# modprobe nvidia
> >>
> >> FATAL: Module nvidia_1_0_8774 not found.
> >
> > Whenevery you switch your NVidia drivers to another version, you have to
> > run:
> > nvidia-graphics-switch <version>
> >
> > Thomas

Thomas, I did that per another post, and that didn't seem to do much. 

> Also check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and also check the dmesg look to
> see if nvidia modules are loaded,

Here are the parts from Xorg.0.log that seem to be relevant...
(--) PCI:*(2:3:0) nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] rev 161, Mem @ 0x40000000/24, 0x30000000/27

(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
        compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8774
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver

(II) NVIDIA X Driver  1.0-8774  Tue Aug  1 20:56:50 PDT 2006
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 02:03:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(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

> check you haven't got another  nvidia module  installed rpm -qa | grep
> nvidia

This is what I get:
[root at mythtvbe ~]# rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia-graphics8774-libs-1.0_8774-75.fc5.at
nvidia-graphics8178-libs-1.0_8178-74.fc5.at
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-5.fc5.at
nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.14-15.fc5.at
nvidia-graphics8774-1.0_8774-75.fc5.at
nvidia-graphics8774-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-1.0_8774-75.fc5.at