[MythDora] ATrpms - Yum question

[gchris]

Dennis Hand wrote:
>> Now Xorg in MD3.2
>> had no problems recognizing my monitor, but ever since MD4.0 it has had
>> trouble with that, probably because it's 6 years old and Xorg has purged
>> it from its monitor tables.   In any case, I think now that my problems
>> were due to an old nvidia driver combined with a new Xorg with an
>> unrecognized monitor.
> This could very well be. It's happened to me before.
> 
>> What does seem a little odd though - I just tried to change back to 9755
>> by editing modprobe.conf (2 places) but that had no effect on a reboot,
>> 8776 still loaded.  I then tried changing to 9755 with the
>> nvidia-graphics-switch command, but when I restarted X couldn't load the
>> driver and wound up putting me back in nv.  It looks like the only way
>> to get back to 9755 is going to be to re-install it with MythDora Tools.
>> Right now running in nv cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE tells me:
>> (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
>> but I can't say for sure whether that came from the inability to load
>> 9755 or not.
>> Chris
> That is very odd. I would have thought simply editing modprobe.conf to
> change to 8776 and an X restart would be it. And I thought it only had
> it listed once. The graphics switch command should have worked too.
> Sounds like it tried but threw in nv which isn't what we want. There
> has got to be a cleaner way of changing without reinstalling. Have you
> by chance looked at your install.log located in /root to see if you
> got a scriplet error when doing an initial install regarding the
> nvidia driver?
> 
I'm back on my live system now because I'm going to record Leno shortly 
but I checked the install log on this drive and sure enough it contains 
the following sequence:

Installing nvidia-graphics9755-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 - 
1:1.0_9755-86.fc6.at.i686
Installing nvidia-graphics9755 - 1:1.0_9755-86.fc6.at.i386
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/nvidia-graphics-helpers/nvidia-config-x.py", line 61, in ?
     if os.access(xconfigpath, os.F_OK):
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found
error: %post(nvidia-graphics9755-1.0_9755-86.fc6.at.i386) scriptlet 
failed, exit status 1

I'll check the other drive tomorrow.

Now, at the risk of convincing you that I've really lost it, let me tell 
you a little story.  After the misadventure with the RPM the other day I 
noticed that this system was posting a new error on shutdown.  The error 
is that /proc/acpi/alarm is not found, and sure enough that file is not 
there although there are many others in /proc/acpi.  I've never been in 
that directory before so I have no clue what happened there.

Tonight, when I reconnected this drive and booted it, I noticed the 
kernel number looked funny.  Sure enough, this machine is now running
2.6.22.7-57.fc6!!!!  The only things I've installed on this machine 
recently are the myth yum upgrade and the nvidia rpms.  If I had to 
guess, my guess would be that the kernel got upgraded when I reinstalled 
9755 using MythDora tools.  The reason I say that is downloading that 
rpm seemed to take a very, very long time - long enough to download both 
the rpm and a new kernel.  Tomorrow I'll take a look at the other drive 
and see what state it is in because I left it running nv and hadn't yet 
reinstalled the 9755 rpm.
Chris
P.S. Surer than shit, here's this systems /var/log/yum.log for that day:
Sep 30 15:33:00 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.22.7-57.fc6
Sep 30 15:33:07 Updated: nvidia-graphics9755-libs.i386 1:1.0_9755-87.fc6
Sep 30 15:33:07 Installed: nvidia-graphics9755-kmdl-2.6.22.7-57.fc6.i686 
1:1.0_9755-87.fc6
Sep 30 15:33:13 Updated: nvidia-graphics9755.i386 1:1.0_9755-87.fc6
Sep 30 15:33:13 Installed: lirc-kmdl-2.6.22.7-57.fc6.i686 
0.8.3-70_cvs20070827.fc6
Sep 30 15:33:14 Installed: nvidia-graphics8776-kmdl-2.6.22.7-57.fc6.i686 
1:1.0_8776-80.fc6
Sep 30 15:33:14 Installed: ivtv-kmdl-2.6.22.7-57.fc6.i686 1:1.0.2-134.fc6

What a mess!  You can see from the timestamp it was all done in one 
transaction.  No wonder this system was unhappy!