bad livna nvidia X driver update ?

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Fri Mar 9 20:13:19 UTC 2007


> Has anyone else had problems with the last livna update for the nvidia X
> driver. Installation gave this error
>
> Running Transaction
>   Installing: kmod-nvidia                  ######################### [1/2]
> WARNING: Can't read
> module /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko: No
> such file or directory
>   Installing: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia          ######################### [2/2]
>
> and afterwards the nvidia driver is no longer being used (no message in the
> boot up sequence and the nv driver is being used instead).

I've found the problem. It seems the latest kmod's from livna have some build 
problems. In this case the problem is 

 /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko

was actually a sym-link to 

/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko

Note that the kernel version is wrong.... By simply updating the sym-link by 
hand to point to the correct kernel version 
(/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko) everything works 
fine again.

Note, this problem is not just for the nvidia kmod - I also noticed that the 
ntfs kmod had the same problem 

/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6/weak-updates/ntfs/ntfs.ko

was pointing to

/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko

In this case the older kernel module did exist, so all *seemed* to run OK. 
Neverless I also fixed this link.

Do I need to report this somewhere at livna (or are the maintainers already 
reading this list...) ?

Chris




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