[mythtv-users] OT mismatched kernel and kmdl archs (was: Unmet dependencies with nvidia and latest atrpm kernel)

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:54:41PM -0500, Aran Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 20:06, Shay - MythTV wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I recently updated my kernel to 2.4.22-1.2179.nptl_47.rhfc1.at and now I 
> > can't update my nvidia drivers.  When I do the following:
> > 
> > apt-get install nvidia-graphics4363-kmdl-`uname -r`
> > 
> > I get an error saying:
> > 
> > strictdep-kernel-athlon (=2.4.22-1.2179.nptl_47.rhfc1.at)
> > 
> > But thats the kernel I installed..  I go the route of Jarod's guide by the 
> > way.  I've updated my kernel before without this problem.. but maybe I'm 
> > forgetting something this time?
> > 
> > Any help would be great.  I can't get nvidia to work at all now, even with 
> > my older kernels.
> 
> Do you have the strictdep-kernel-athlon with the correct version
> installed, or just the kernel?

The issue was tracked down at atrpms-devel. For some reason Shay had
the wrong kernel installed, he had the i686 kernel on an athlon
machine. Later apt-get commands tried to install the athlon version of
kmlds which conflicted with the kernel. This was not explicit for
nvidia kmdl, no kmdl at all would update onto the wrong arch (unless
forced to be i686 arch).

The real question is how the wrong kernel got on his machine. Shay
reports apt-get doing the mess, if anyone experiences similar
misinstallation of the kernel via apt-get please report to
atrpms-users (as this is very off-topic for mythtv).

> RPM's are great, but don't be afraid to just grab the NVIDIA installer
> and go that route.  You can sort out your dependency issues later!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20040420/31cebd4d/attachment.pgp