[ATrpms-users] Re: Jarod's FC2 + nvidia6111 = broken X

Bob waggelz at comcast.net
Tue Oct 12 19:59:38 CEST 2004


Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:33:30PM -0500, Bob wrote:
> 
>>Running a fresh Myth build from Jarod's guide is breaking X after 
>>pulling in the nvidia drivers.
>>
>>The 521 kernel goes in fine and successfully reboots into the new 
>>kernel. Installing the nvidia kernel modules appears to work fine.
>>
>>When I hit it with 'apt-get install nvidia-graphics6111' everything 
>>appears to go smoothly but I get: "There are no available nvidia 
>>graphics drivers on your system."
> 
> 
> Could you post the whole output including the installation of the
> kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6111 rpms?

[root at earwax /]# apt-get reinstall 
kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6111-$MYKERNEL
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/975kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
    1:kernel-module-nvidia-gr########################################### 
[100%]
Done.
[root at earwax /]# apt-get reinstall nvidia-graphics6111
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/977kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
    1:nvidia-graphics6111    ########################################### 
[100%]
There are no available nvidia graphics drivers on your system.
Done.
[root at earwax /]#

Identical output as when they were first installed. Would you prefer I 
remove the drivers and kernel, rebuild the rpm db and then install them?



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