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

Harry Devine lifter89 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 20 00:00:39 UTC 2008


Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Harry Devine wrote:
>
>   
>> 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).
>>     
>
> I had the same problem. For me, it had installed 3 minor revs of the 
> drivers. In yum do a   list installed nvidia* if you have multieple drivers 
> like for each kernel, remove the ones with the other minors. IE, I had
>
> nvidia-graphics169.07-kmdl-2.6.24.3-12.fc8
> nvidia-graphics169.09-kmdl-2.6.24.3-12.fc8
> nvidia-graphics169.12-kmdl-2.6.24.3-12.fc8
>
> and did
> remove nvidia-graphics169.07* nvidia-graphics169.09*
>
> any anything else with the wrong minor number
>
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>   
If I do rpm -qa |grep nvidia*, I get:
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-6.fc8
nvidia-graphics169.12-kmdl-2.6.24.3-34.fc8-169.12-96.fc8

There aren't any older ones there.

Thanks,
Harry



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