[ATrpms-users] FC5 nvidia9639 bad, 9631 good for me

[John Pilkington]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:25:41AM +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
>> nvidia 9639 aborts on my FC5 system under both kernel 2316 and 2319.
>>
>> 9631 is fine under both.
>>
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> 
> Please
> 
> o go init 3
> o use nvidia-graphics-switch
> o check that lsmod | grep nvidia returns something
> o if not check the last lines of /etc/modprobe.conf,
>   - does manually invocing modprobe nvidia help?
> o If the module is loaded check /var/log/messages for the version it
>   reports itself with
> o If all looks fine try going into X again
> 
> => If this still fails, one needs to check the X part of the ocnfig as
> above for the kernel module part.


/etc/modprobe.conf refers to nvidia-1_0-9639

after nvidia-graphics-switch 9639

/var/log/messages said that version 1.0-9631 was loaded, and complained

modprobe nvidia-1_0-9639 didn't complain and I have X back.  I don't 
know how robustly it is in place.

Thanks, Axel

John P