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

[Don Bossung]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [ATrpms-users] CentOS kernel upgrade=no pvr150 cards
> From: Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, January 25, 2010 1:52 am
> To: John Robinson <john.robinson at anonymous.org.uk>
> Cc: Don Bossung <donald at bossung.net>, atrpms-users at atrpms.net
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:30 AM, John Robinson <
> john.robinson at anonymous.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 24/01/2010 23:58, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >
> > I think rather than uninstalling, I'd do
> >
> > sudo rpm -Uvh --oldpackage module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.42.el5.i386.rpm
> >
> > (or x86_64 as appropriate).
> >
> >
> Sometime I use the force option:
> 
> --force
>               Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage.
> 
> 
> The problem is that it only replaces files. It does not delete files from
> the old package that do not exist in the new package any more.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ

I tired the recommended process (removing the current module-init-tools
and replacing with same from 5.3 as directed) and still don't have any
video devices in /dev. If you have other ideas, cool, but if not, thats
ok too as I imagine this will catch up sometime.

don