[ATrpms-devel] FC6 yum update doesn't update nvidia-graphics kmdl

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:04:31PM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> On 3/25/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> >
> >On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:52:28AM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >> Axel, what does make a kernel pick a module in /lib/modules/.../updates,
> >> instead of the original version in its original place, as in
> >video4linux?
> >
> >module-init-tools does that by itself, e.g. the directories under
> >/lib/modules are scanned in a certain order with /updates/ first and
> >/kernel/ last. The mechanism has become a bit involved lately due to
> >the dynamical weak-symbols feature, but the basics are still the same.
> >
> >> In the nvidia case both modules are in updates.  Why one would be
> >> preferred to the other?
> >
> >Due to the "nvidia" alias in /etc/modprobe.conf.

> I just updated an FC5 computer to 2.6.20.307 and
> installed both 9746 and 9755 nvidia drivers (libs are also there).
> 
> Although  /etc/modprobe.conf contains
> 
> alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-9755
> 
> it insists in loading 9746. I rebooted and used
> /usr/sbin/nvidia-graphics-switch
> several times, and unless I remove 9746 module, X does not start, because
> it tries to load 9746 instead of 9755.
> 
> Definitively, something has changed in recent kernels.

What happens if you drop to init 3, rmmod the nvidia module and
modprobe it again with modprobe nvidia? Does it still load the wrong
one even though modprobe.conf has an alias pointing to the desired
one?

Maybe some depmod command when rogue on you?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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