[ATrpms-users] CentOS kernel upgrade=no pvr150 cards

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Don Bossung <donald at bossung.net> wrote:

>
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [ATrpms-users] CentOS kernel upgrade=no pvr150 cards
> > From: Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, January 24, 2010 2:41 pm
> > To: Don Bossung <donald at bossung.net>
> > Cc: atrpms-users at atrpms.net
> > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Don Bossung <donald at bossung.net> wrote:
> > > I have a CentOS base (5.4) that was running kernel
> > > 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5.centos.plus x86_64 SMP.
> > >
> > > I recently added an nvidia 9500 video card and when I dl'd the
> > > nvidia-graphics package it pulled
> > > nvidia-graphics190.53-kmdl-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus along with
> > > kernel 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus.
> > >
> > > When I reboot, my 2 pvr150s are not in dev. They show up in lspci, they
> > > show up in the machines bios, but /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 do not
> > > show up. When I downgrade back to 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5.centos.plus
> kernel
> > > and reboot, video0 and video1 come back. The problem I am running into
> > > now is that I cannot get the nvidia kmdl for kernel
> > > 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5.centos.plus and such cannot use the new card.
> > >
> > > Any ideas of how to proceed troubleshooting this? Is there another
> > > upgrade/problem to deal with?
> > >
> > >
> > Do you have video4linux installed?
> > If not, try installing it. Otherwise,
> > try downgrading module-init-tools to this version:
> > module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.
> > 1.42.el5
> > --
> > Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> > LCG - UFRJ
>
> video4linux = 1:20090907-91.el5
>
> Note: the pvr150s were working well until the kernel upgrade to
> 2.6.18-165.11
>
> Not to be dense, but could you give me a push toward the downgrade? The
> module-init-tools on the CentOS 5.4 DVD and at atrpms is 1.54, which is
> the same version before the kernel upgrade when things were working.
>
>
This is how I do:

wget
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/CentOS/module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.42.el5.x86_64.rpm

sudo rpm -e module-init-tools --nodeps

sudo rpm -ivh module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.42.el5.i386.rpm

reboot

Maybe this will fix your problem for now.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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