x server nvidia driver problem

Dave Burns tburns at hawaii.edu
Thu Aug 14 19:23:24 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Ken Gullaksen <krg at knowit.no> wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting the nvidia driver to run. X server locks up
> on boot. This seems to be a known issue.
> A post on nvnews:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=102335 mentions that
> 1.4.99 is not supported, and will not be supported until release of 1.5.
>
> Is this correct? And if so, when will x server 1.5 be available through yum?

You give no details, so hard to know, but maybe your kernel doesn't
have a matching kmod-nvidia? Livna is not up-to-date with the latest
kernels. If so, booting an older kernel will solve your problem.
Dave




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