Re: nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Waleed Harbi wrote:
Try download nvidia driver from Nvidia web site, then download the
kernel-dev rpm via yum after that start the installation in level 3.
Nvidia they have driver for linux, and it is working fine with me.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The kernels video API was changed withn the first 2.6.25 release
candidate,
and the driver available in the .12.run package will not build on 2.6.25-x
kernels, unless they have released a new driver in the last 24 hours or
so.
I gave up, there is now an ati based 2400HD in this system. But I can't
watch tv with tvtime now, that overlay interface is missing from the
radeonhd
driver.

Check the nVIDIA forums. There is a patch for this problem available for
download.

As a tv engineer, that sucks, so I'm damned either way.

As a tv engineer, you are damned no matter what.




wrote:
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Robin Laing wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:51:56PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
Does that mean it will prevent a kernel from getting installed if

the

matching kmdls are not available?

No, I didn't want a security update to be ladt off if it missed a
kmdl. But if you install a kernel the moment it gets released (and
therefore there are no kmdls yet available) once the kmdls are
there
yum-plugin-kmdl will make yum update get them for you.

.. but this is a Bad Thing when it comes to nvdia, because the next

time

you reboot, X won't start for a few days. In fact, most kmdls are

pretty

important for day-to-day operations. Clearly I can see how someone

else

would want it to work the way you designed it, but that SO doesn't

work

for me.

Well, one can change the plugin to behave as you want, but indeed
most
users wanted to be asyncronous and not be held back by any third
party
in getting their vendor updates.

If you want to experiment: In the loop where it checks whether a
kmdl
exists or not just add in the case of a failure for a lookup to
unmark
the kernel for installation. Or to add UPDATEDEFAULT=no to
/etc/sysconfig/kernel before installing it.

What you are discussing is exactly what dkms is supposed to correct.

dkms(8) - Linux man page
http://linux.die.net/man/8/dkms

dkms is a framework which allows kernel modules to be dynamically
built
for each kernel on your system in a simplified and organized fashion.


Since I moved to dkms, I have not had any issues with nvidia drivers
on
any machine. :)

Humm, can you say that for post 2.6.25-rc0 kernels? I don't think so,
Robin.

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