kmod-nvidia not working in kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/3/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g at mhg2.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:02:00 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
>
> > But I did the nvidia installation as instructed in
> > http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html#nvidia
> >
> > I checked if kmod-nvidia is really installed or not through rpm and it
> > says
> > it is installed.
> > ------------------
> > $ rpm -q kmod-nvidia
> > kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-2.2.6.17_1.2139_FC5
> > ----------------------
> >
> > Now I am confused.
> >
>
> what you should be paying attention to is the installation instructions
> from the livna repo instead: http://rpm.livna.org/ also note that the
> news post from March 29th points out that the steps necessary have
> changed. (hopefully they'll get around to updating or appending the
> original instructions to reflect the change)
>
> This having been said, I should warn you that with the current
> kmod-nvidia I experienced quite a bit of error WRT memory corruption
> that reflected back into swap, which reflected back into what actually
> got onto / -- I wound up having to manually fsck /, redo my swap
> partition, and uninstall kmod-nvidia, after which my problems went
> away.
>
> Fortunately I was able to get quite a bit of debuginfo that will get
> forwarded on to the lovely nvidia folks with a pound of thanks for not
> open-sourcing their drivers so things like this could get caught sooner.
> =P
>
> my advice: live without kmod-nvidia for now. It's *not* ready for
> prime-time; not because of livna but because of nvidia themselves.
>
> Many thanks to Mike Harris for straightening me on this, and for
> assistance with the recovery process. Cheers dude, where do I send the
> beer? :)

What makes you so convinced that the nvidia X driver caused this mess,
and not hardware problems, or some other bug?


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