[mythtv-users] Problem with nVidia drivers on 0.21 upgrade

[Harry Devine]

mythtv at blandford.net wrote:
> Harry Devine wrote:
>   
>> I just re-installed my Myth box with Fedora 8 x86_64, and I rebuilt it 
>> as a clean, fresh re-install.  I want to get everything working outside 
>> of Myth first (sound, video, networking, etc.) as much as possible 
>> before installing Myth 0.21 on it.  Well, I'm having trouble with the 
>> nVidia drivers that I got from ATRPMS.net.
>>
>> I did a yum install nvidia-graphics169.12-kmdl-$KVER and it pulled down 
>> the 169.12 drivers for my kernel (2.6.24.3-34.fc8).  I have my xorg.conf 
>> file loading the nvidia driver as per the NVidia section of the Wiki ( 
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora_7).  
>> However, when I try to start the X-Server, I get the following in my 
>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:  (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module 
>> does not exist, 0).
>>
>> What am I missing here?  I thought that the drivers would have been 
>> installed in the proper locations via the yum command above.  I'm sure 
>> I'm just being stupid here. :-)  I did search Gossamer Threads, but with 
>> 715 pages of hits for "nvidia", I thought this would be easier. 
>>     
>
> Did you install the nvidia-graphics169.12 and nvidia-graphics169.12-libs 
> packages as well?
>
> ichael
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Nope, but when I try to do that, I get:
"Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-graphics-helpers is needed by package 
nvidia-graphics169.12".
Trying to yum install that one gives me "No package 
nvidia-graphics-helpers available".

Now what?
Harry