[mythtv-users] Nvidia 9631 drivers on Fedora 7 for MythTV frontend Box

[Bruce Taber]

I'm having a problem after a recent upgrade of the system. More 
specifically the problem is with the Nvidia drivers. Xorg.0.log is 
saying that the nvidia module couldn't be opened. Thought that it might 
be useful to check here to see if anybody has come across this problem 
yet. The system is the main mythfrontend to mythtv and was running okay. 
Yeah, I know, if it's not broken ... yada  yada yada. I prefer to keep 
my systems updated. Up until now there haven't been but a couple of 
glitches in updating. The last glitch a week ago was that the XvMC 
failed because the location of the file had changed.

This is what got updated using "yum update --enable atrpms". The first 
three "Erased"s were due to yum not resolving and handling the new 5-76 
kernel. So, I removed the nvidia module with a yum remove 
nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.

Sep 13 17:09:25 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Sep 13 17:09:30 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631
Sep 13 17:10:39 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-2.6.22.1-32.fc6

That allowed all of the other updates to complete and this is what was 
updated today.

Sep 13 17:11:44 Updated: totem-plparser - 2.18.3-1.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:11:54 Updated: samba-common - 3.0.26a-0.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:12:08 Updated: gstreamer-plugins-good - 0.10.6-1.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:12:18 Updated: rhythmbox - 0.10.1-1.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:12:20 Updated: usermode - 1.93-1.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:12:21 Updated: usermode-gtk - 1.93-1.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:12:42 Updated: totem - 2.18.3-1.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:12:44 Updated: libdhcp4client - 12:3.0.5-39.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:12:45 Updated: dhclient - 12:3.0.5-39.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:12:48 Updated: kernel-headers - 2.6.22.5-76.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:11 Installed: kernel - 2.6.22.5-76.fc7.i686
Sep 13 17:13:12 Updated: vixie-cron - 4:4.1-84.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:23 Installed: kernel-devel - 2.6.22.5-76.fc7.i686
Sep 13 17:13:25 Updated: libsmbclient - 3.0.26a-0.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:32 Updated: perl - 4:5.8.8-23.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:33 Updated: perl-libs - 4:5.8.8-23.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:36 Updated: samba-client - 3.0.26a-0.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:39 Updated: valgrind - 1:3.2.3-5.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:39 Updated: perl-Test-Harness - 2.56-23.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:40 Updated: perl-CPAN - 1.76_02-23.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:41 Updated: perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker - 6.30-23.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:44 Updated: perl-Test-Simple - 0.62-23.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:46 Updated: perl-devel - 4:5.8.8-23.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:13:47 Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Embed - 1.26-23.fc7.i386

However, there currently are no nvidia-graphics9631 modules available 
yet for the 5-76 kernel.  No problem. Just back off the kernel to 4-65 
using grub.conf. Reboot to the old 4-65 kernel and install the nvidia 
modules and libs with: yum install nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-`uname -r` 
nvidia-graphics9631-libs nvidia-graphics9631 --enable atrpms. I wound up 
installing and removing that several times thinking the modules were not 
getting installed. The nvidia drivers were installed from the .run 
package from nvidia. That has not resolved the problem.

Sep 13 17:18:01 Installed: nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 - 
1:1.0_9631-83.fc7.i686
Sep 13 17:18:25 Installed: nvidia-graphics9631 - 1:1.0_9631-83.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:33:15 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631-libs
Sep 13 17:33:33 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Sep 13 17:33:37 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631
Sep 13 17:34:17 Installed: nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 - 
1:1.0_9631-83.fc7.i686
Sep 13 17:34:19 Installed: nvidia-graphics9631-libs - 1:1.0_9631-83.fc7.i386
Sep 13 17:34:23 Installed: nvidia-graphics9631 - 1:1.0_9631-83.fc7.i386
Sep 13 18:27:50 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631-libs
Sep 13 18:28:07 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Sep 13 18:28:12 Erased: nvidia-graphics9631
Sep 13 18:29:23 Installed: nvidia-graphics9631-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 - 
1:1.0_9631-83.fc7.i686
Sep 13 18:29:24 Installed: nvidia-graphics9631-libs - 1:1.0_9631-83.fc7.i386
Sep 13 18:29:28 Installed: nvidia-graphics9631 - 1:1.0_9631-83.fc7.i386

I haven't been able to find much information on Nvidia.com since they 
are older drivers. The older drivers are needed because it's a shuttle 
with onboard graphics card and 9631 are the latest drivers that will 
recognize the card. So, if anybody has run up against this it would be 
appreciated to find out how to resolve the problem.

Bruce