nvidia.ko for kernel 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 is not found

[gmangual]

Hi, everything was working find last night. Today I just turned on the computer and saw a message saying that nvidia.ko for the kernel 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 is not found. It seems that a kernel update damage the working driver. I tried to updated the driver using yum update kmod-nvidia but nothing was found and I have the livna repo. Now GL Desktop (Gnome Compiz) can't be enabled because I get a blank screen

I have a Nvidia Fx5200 AGP8x video card.This is what I get when running rpm -qa |grep nvidia

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.09-1.lvn9.i386
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686-173.14.09-2.lvn9.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.09-1.lvn9.i386
kmod-nvidia-173.14.09-2.lvn9.i686

Any idea of what can i do to solve this? or I just need to keep waiting for an nvidia driver update for the kernel 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 to appear someday using yum?

THANKS!

[MheAd]

It happens sometimes.
It will show up on the repository soon.

[gmangual]

Thank you for your comment. That's what I thought.

[Rbb_e]

I'm experiencing the exact same problem.
So I take it anyone else effected by this will just have to wait?
If so when it is fixed will I have to do anything like "yum update kmod-nvidia" also how long does this generally take to be fixed?

Also sorry if this is seen as thread-hijacking or anything I just thought it better to ask here instead of creating another topic for the same problem.

[Finalzone]

yum install akmod-nvidia

Use that command, reboot the system and voilà.

[Rbb_e]

I try doing that and I get errors about it being unable to connect.

[anonymouse]

It's now working for me. Actually I had the opposite problem - the new version of kmod-nvidia was found but the latest kernel was not!

Anyway if you try updating again now it should work.

[Rbb_e]

I tried it and I got "could not retireve mirrorlist http://mirror.fedoraprojectblahblah error was
[error 4] IOerror: <urlopen error(-3,'temporary failure blah blah

I had to write it down by hand and that got tired pretty quickly. Any idea on how I can fix this? It's a completely different message then I was getting before when I tried and I got a screen full of errors now i'm only getting the one.

[Dan]

Sounds like a moirror is still updating. Give it about 30 minutes and try again.

[Rbb_e]

Thanks for the help.
I'll try again in a little while and hopefully it'll be fixed =] If not i'll be back tomorrow haha

[brebs]

An alternative to akmod is to run nvidia's own installer automatically after booting into a new kernel - add this to /etc/rc.local

# Setup, for nvidia module checking
ARCH=$(uname -i)
LIBDIR=lib64
# pkg2 includes 32-bit compatibility libs - /usr/lib/libGL.so
PKG=pkg2
if [ "${ARCH}" != "x86_64" ] ; then
	# Is 32-bit
	ARCH=x86
	LIBDIR=lib
	PKG=pkg1
fi

INSTALL_NVIDIA=
/sbin/modprobe nvidia
if [ $? != 0 ] || ! [ -L "/usr/${LIBDIR}/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" ] ; then
	INSTALL_NVIDIA=y
else
	# Check opengl headers, because nvidia's headers break the
	# compilation of xorg-x11-server.
	# mesa-libGL-devel provides /usr/include/GL/gl.h
	# http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=184
	grep GL_DEPTH_STENCIL_MESA /usr/include/GL/gl.h > /dev/null
	[ $? != 0 ] && INSTALL_NVIDIA=y
fi

if [ -n "${INSTALL_NVIDIA}" ] ; then
	# Releases: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606
	VER=180.22
	# $ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
	# xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9.x86_64
	# Posted at http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1047697#post1047697
	# find /lib/modules/ -name nvidia.ko -delete
	# yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers glibc-headers
	# Info:  sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg1.run -A
	# wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/173.14.05/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.05-pkg2.run
	# Populates /usr/lib64/tls/
	# Seems to delete /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
	# Also creates /usr/lib64/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1
	mkdir -p /root/nvidia
	cd /root/nvidia
	[ -e NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${VER}-${PKG}.run ] || wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-${ARCH}/${VER}/NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${VER}-${PKG}.run || wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-${ARCH}/${VER}/NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${VER}-${PKG}.run
	# Run nvidia's installer, without overwriting e.g. /usr/include/GL/gl.h
	sh /root/nvidia/NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${VER}-${PKG}.run -a -q -s -N --no-opengl-headers
	/sbin/modprobe nvidia
fi

Also put in /etc/modprobe.conf for /dev/nvidia* permissions

# 100 is users group in /etc/group
options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileMode=0660 NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=100 NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles=1

For further info on Nvidia's installer, see FUD and bug.

[gmangual]

Originally Posted by Finalzone

yum install akmod-nvidia

Use that command, reboot the system and voilà.

Hi. I tried yum install akmod-nvidia and some drivers where installed. After a reboot the system found the nvidia.ko driver but never started X. I had to log in as root in console mode and then delete the file from (/lib/modules/2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686/extra) After another reboot I could log in with the graphical interface, but still have the problem.

[Finalzone]

What does

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

say? It will be a good idea to attach that file and ask Firewing1 about the issue.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by brebs

An alternative to akmod is to run nvidia's own installer automatically after booting into a new kernel, e.g. on x86_64 put this in /etc/rc.local

/sbin/modprobe nvidia
if [ $? != 0 ] || ! [ -L /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so ] ; then
    # Posted at http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1047697#post1047697
    VER=173.14.12
    # find /lib/modules/ -name nvidia.ko -delete
    # yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers glibc-headers
    # Info:  sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2.run -A
    # wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/173.14.05/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.05-pkg2.run
    # Populates /usr/lib64/tls/
    # Seems to delete /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
    mkdir -p /root/nvidia
    cd /root/nvidia
    [ -e NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${VER}-pkg2.run ] || wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/${VER}/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${VER}-pkg2.run
    sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${VER}-pkg2.run -a -q -s -N
    /sbin/modprobe nvidia
fi

With this method X would break every time the xorg-x11-server-Xorg package was updated !

i.e it would overwrite some of the nvidia files ( the nvidia run file overwrites some of the fedora xorg files )

[brebs]

Originally Posted by leigh123@linux

With this method X would break

Big deal. Just rerun the nvidia installer. Such an obvious, intuitive and easy fix

Anyway, you will notice my checking & automatically fixing line, since you chose to quote ALL of my code, causing me to wear out the scroll button on my mouse:

[ -L /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so ]

There's a ton of legacy FUD about the nvidia installer. It's actually not the child of Satan that it's made out to be. In fact, it actually just works. Without having to go through the pain barrier of figuring out what on Earth kmod/akmod packages do.