Can't load Nvidia driver on Fedora 9 x86_64

[John Austin]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 13:09 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote:
> New install on a machine with the following:
> 
> 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 
> 7050/nForce 610i (rev a2)
> 
> Kernel:
> 
> kernel-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64
> 
> Livna is available, the following have been installed:
> 
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64-173.14.09-1.lvn9.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.09-1.lvn9.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-173.14.09-1.lvn9.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.09-1.lvn9.x86_64
> 
> However, the nvidia module cannot be loaded; it exists, but the error 
> says that it doesn't.  Anyone else seeing this?  At this point I'm using 
> the VESA driver ...
> 
> [root at willow ~]# modprobe nvidia
> FATAL: Error inserting nvidia 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko): No such device
> 
> Hugh
> 
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> Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator
> Aldon Computer Group
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> 
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> 
> 
I can confirm a problem

tarifa ~ 864# uname -a
Linux tarifa 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 16:05:21 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

If I install the latest "livna" nvidia rpms then X fails

yum --enable=livna update
...
Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Updating:
 kmod-nvidia             x86_64     173.14.09-1.lvn9  livna              22 k
 kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64  x86_64     173.14.09-1.lvn9  livna             2.6 M
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia     x86_64     173.14.09-1.lvn9  livna             3.1 M
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs  x86_64     173.14.09-1.lvn9  livna             5.7 M
...
#########################################################################################
I had to back off to 

tarifa ~ 865# rpm -qa|grep -a nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.05-1.lvn9.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-173.14.05-4.lvn9.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64-173.14.05-4.lvn9.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.05-1.lvn9.x86_64

I have been lazy and not probed any further !!

John