nvidia problems

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 14:03:24 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 07:37:28PM +0200, Bob Schmidt wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> New to the list, I have used linux before. Here is my problem, yesterday  
> I installed fedora 10 on my computer and installed the correct nvidia  
> drivers and it worked great. I realized that I needed a bigger hard drive 
> so I installed a new hard drive and installed fedora 10 again. Using the 
> exact same procedure as I used yesterday. But today it does not work, here 
> is the error I receive:
>
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kmod-nvidia-96xx.i686 0:96.43.11-1.fc10.1 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686  
> >= 96.43.11-1.fc10.1 for package: kmod-nvidia-96xx
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686.i686  
> 0:96.43.11-1.fc10.1 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: nvidia-96xx-kmod-common >= 96.43.11 for  
> package: kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686-96.43.11-1.fc10.1.i686 from 
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates has depsolving problems
>  --> *Missing Dependency: nvidia-96xx-kmod-common >= 96.43.11 is needed  
> by package  
> kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686-96.43.11-1.fc10.1.i686  
> (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)
> Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-96xx-kmod-common >= 96.43.11 is needed  
> by package  
> kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686-96.43.11-1.fc10.1.i686  
> (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)*
>
> What can I do to fix this? Thanks in advance.

It looks like the RPMFusion repo may not have a nvidia package updated
for the new kernel.  You can do 'yum --skip-broken update' to get past
this, I believe.  Alternately, you can wait for the nvidia package
update to be released and propagated.

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