[ATrpms-users] New NVIDIA Legacy Drivers for X Server 1.7

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:26:20PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:23:05PM -0500, John Welch wrote:
> >>On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>NVIDIA recently released new legacy drivers for the 173.xx and 96.xx series
> >>>with support for X Server 1.7.  These releases seem to kind of go hand in
> >>>hand with the release of Fedora 12.  I'm wondering if it would be possible
> >>>to get them added to the repo.
> >
> >OK, done!
> >
> >
> After upgrading MythTV on CentOS 5.4 from 0.22-220 to 0.22-222 and
> upgrading from nvidia 96.43.13 to 96.43.14, mythbackend wouldn't
> start because it wanted libvdpau.so.1

What is the error message? rpm/yum should never allow installing a
package w/o it's (known) libs.

> nvidia-graphics190.42-libs provides this and Myth is happy after it
> is installed, but has the same problem after a reboot.  Please, how
> do I avoid the need to reinstall the libs before use?  Modprobe?

rpm should had taken care of it. Regardless of why the dependency
wasn't satsfied, there are libvdpau packages in ATrpms that are
targetted for replacing all nvidia specific ones, so I would yum
install libvdau.

> And also, please, what is the procedure now for nvidia-graphics-switch?
> X doesn't restart automatically on a fresh login, but is OK after a reboot.

init 3
nvidia-graphics-switch ...
init 5

But in some rare occasions a reboot is required to reset the hardware
properly.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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