[mythtv-users] SL6 Kernel/nVidia Drivers

[Nick Morrott]

On 1 May 2011 17:11, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> On 5/1/2011 6:51 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
>>
>> I'm not clear what your problem is, and if you are hoping to run SL6
>> from ATrpms the ATrpms-user list would seem a better place to ask,
>> although traffic there recently has been fairly sparse.
>>
>> The ATrpms download site has 'kmdls' for a wide range of Nvidia drivers,
>> but you need to select the one your hardware needs by referring to this:
>>
>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606
>>
>> If the series 173 _is_ the one you need you should be able to find the
>> modules that you want here:
>>
>> http://dl.atrpms.net/sl6-x86_64/atrpms/stable/
>>
>> I'm not sure how much help yum (or you) needs in making the selections,
>> but it looks to me as if you ought to be able to find the modules that
>> you need.
>
> Nope - got that part fixed. I just downloaded the latest nvidia driver from nvidia's website and let it compile itself against my newer kernel.
>
> So that part is done.
>
> Now sitting at the goofy error message which now I've come to find is a QT version issue. If what I read was correct (here: https://mknowles.com.au/wordpress/2011/04/09/installing-mythbackend-on-sl6/ )
>
> I need to install QT47 on SL6 (even thouh QT46 is install) and now of course if I want to remove QT... (via yum) a whole bunch of dependancies
> are removed with it even though I just want to slide one QT version for another. (yuk -- definitely not yum.)
>
> Anyone know a trick for this kind of switch?

Enable the EL6 repo on atrpms.net as John suggested (and is mentioned
in the SL6 link you posted), and let your system upgrade itself
normally.

You shouldn't need to manually remove QT4.6 in order to install QT4.7
- your package manager should gracefully update to the latest versions
of packages available from the repositories enabled when it is run.

Installing a packaged version of the nvidia binary that includes DKMS
support will also ensure that your nvidia kernel module(s) is
automatically rebuilt/upgraded whenever your kernel is updated.

Cheers,
Nick

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