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

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On 3/26/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> 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?



Then it works (I wish I knew why).

Going back to level 5, 9746 has to be remvoed. This problem occurs either
for FC5 as for FC6.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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