Kernel Update: Nvidia and Nvidia 96xx

GuyverScythe · #1 5th February 2008, 07:47 AM

I have also fallen victim to the troubles caused by the most recent release of the 2.6.23.14 kernel, 107.

I also had a wireless issue, which was solved by an update to release 115 of the 23.14 kernel. When I did that, the nvidia drivers for my 107 release were uninstalled with the kernel, and I was left with none for release 115. I can't seem to find any that will work with it, so I guess none have been developed yet. Any news on this?

I try to load up with my old 23.9-85 kernel, and there are still no nvidia drivers, so I try to install them for this kernel, and I get this:

Code:

Error: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
Error: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx

What did I do here? It seems that I have one, or the other, or both installed, and conflicting with each other when I try to get my nvidia drivers again.

I've been dealing with this for a couple of hours now, and I'm tired. Please help.

leigh123linux · #2 5th February 2008, 08:48 AM

Try this post

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...56&postcount=2

GuyverScythe · #3 6th February 2008, 11:37 PM

Gave it a shot, but that isn't working out for me. Thanks though. The conflict there is that it won't install because I have kernel 2.6.23.14-115 installed, which is newer than the 14-107 that it is trying to install. I don't want to use that kernel because I had issues with my wireless card on it, which is what started this whole thing to begin with. O_O

If I remove kernel 14-115, it wouldn't be to go back to 14-107. I saw you mention in another thread that you compiled it yourself. If you mean from a tarball, where is one available? NVidia's website only has this .run self-executing package available, and that doesn't seem to be working favorably either. It says I don't have the kernel-devel or kernel-source packages required for the two kernels I still have on my system.

I'm going to go get those packages, to try to run Nvidia's installer again. If you were using 14-115, and you have a way that might be easier, I would appreciate that in the meanwhile. :-D

Thanks for the help so far.

GuyverScythe · #4 7th February 2008, 12:30 AM

Here's what happened after deciding to delete the newest kernel, and work with 9-85:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs --exclude=xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx  --exclude=xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy --exclude kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 --exclude kernel-2.6.23.14-1-7.fc8
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 0:169.09-3.lvn8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod >= 169.09 for package: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod >= 169.09 for package: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 0:169.09-3.lvn8 set to be updated
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i386 0:169.09-3.lvn8 set to be updated
---> Package kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64 0:169.07-1.lvn8 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:169.09-5.lvn8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 = 169.09-5.lvn8 for package: kmod-nvidia
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 = 169.09-5.lvn8 is needed by package kmod-nvidia

It wants to keep trying to install 14-107. I can't get around it. Maybe I'll try looking at any .conf files that have to do with the display driver, although I wouldn't know where to look or what to do.

leigh123linux · #5 7th February 2008, 12:36 AM

Try

Code:

su
wget http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.x86_64.rpm
yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs --exclude=xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx  --exclude=xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy

GuyverScythe · #6 7th February 2008, 09:04 AM

Well, now that the packages for the newer 14-115 kernel were released, I just used those including the --exclude tags that you recommended in your first post.

What I was hoping to do before that was find a way to rebuild packages to suit my particular kernel, or find the source for the nvidia drivers.

this one post that I found by you seemed closer to what I was hoping for, which was to build the nvidia-lib and xorg packages to suit the older kernel i was trying to use, or the newer 14-115 kernel which didn't have packages out for it yet. It is in this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...2&page=2&pp=15

If I run into it again, I'll learn to use rpmbuilder and see if that helps.

thanks leigh

leigh123linux · #7 7th February 2008, 09:14 AM

I use a dkms based driver ( it builds it's own module on initial bootup )

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...77&postcount=5

Code:

[leigh@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.23.14-133.fc8
[leigh@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep nvidia
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-169.09-1.fc8
nvidia-x11-drv-169.09-1.fc8
[leigh@localhost ~]$

Quote:

What I was hoping to do before that was find a way to rebuild packages to suit my particular kernel, or find the source for the nvidia drivers.

this one post that I found by you seemed closer to what I was hoping for, which was to build the nvidia-lib and xorg packages to suit the older kernel i was trying to use, or the newer 14-115 kernel which didn't have packages out for it yet. It is in this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum...92&page=2&pp=15

Livna have changed there build system since then making it hard to build for newer kernels .

GuyverScythe · #8 14th March 2008, 09:39 PM

Hey Leigh,

I'm trying to use the DKMS modules to build my Nvidia drivers, but by default some of the settings must be off, because the signal is out of my monitor's range.

You recommend that a user edit his xorg.conf file in this post: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum...077&postcount=5

I'm afraid I'm not clear on what must be edited! I took a look through terminal and didn't see any resolutions in the screen section that my monitor shouldn't be able to handle. Does anything specific need to be changed in order to use the DKMS modules?

xorg log reads these errors:

Quote:

no screens found.

(ww) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(ww) xf86CloseConsole: VTGETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor

So this leads me to believe somethings up with my Xorg.conf... what did I miss?

I can't run glxinfo either.

I would like to post my Xorg.conf file and log file, but I don't know how without X server. I'll try to use the rescue CD and see if that will help.