Still trouble with Livna NVidia drivers
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Sat May 5 16:12:46 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 08:39 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> I have yet to successfully get yum to download the Livna NVidia drivers,
> so I thought I'd just grab the RPMs directly from rpm.livna.org and
> install by hand. This is the result. This happens even after I run
> "system-config-display --reconfig" before installing. Any clues, anyone?
>
> TIA.
>
> $ sudo rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-4.lvn6.i386.rpm
> kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948.fc6.i686.rpm
> Preparing... ###########################################
> [100%]
> 1:kmod-nvidia ########################################### [ 50%]
> 2:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia ########################################### [100%]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 146, in ?
> app = nvidiaConfigDisplay()
> File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 52, in __init__
> self.run()
> File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 129, in run
> self.enable()
> File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 67, in enable
> self.toggleDriver(currentDriver, self.majorVendor)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py",
> line 119, in toggleDriver
> dev.driver = newDriver
> TypeError: Expected a string
>
>
> --
> Matthew Saltzman
>
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
>
Hi, Matthew,
I had the same issue last week. I discovered that the downloaded
driver was too short (something like 12Mb vs 27Mb if IRC). I downloaded
again and it got the full thing and worked correctly.
Regards,
Les H
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