Nvidia driver in kernel 2122 failed to update...

[Wong Kwok-hon]

Hello!

I got and error of nvidia-kmod-common not found when update the nvidia driver.
When can I get this package ?

Thanks!

Wong Kwok Hon

# yum update kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia --enablerepo livna
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
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http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4]
IOError: <urlopen error (-3,
'\xe8\xa7\xa3\xe6\x9e\x90\xe5\x90\x8d\xe7\xa8\xb1\xe6\x99\x82\xe7\x99\xbc\xe7\x94\x9f\xe6\x9a\xab\xe6\x99\x82\xe6\x80\xa7\xe7\x9a\x84\xe9\x8c\xaf\xe8\xaa\xa4')>
Trying other mirror.
livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
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Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i386 0:1.0.8762-3.lvn5 set to be updated
---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 0:1.0.8762-1.2.6.16_1.2122_FC5 set to be
installed--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod-common = 1.0.8756 for package:
kmod-nvidia
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod-common = 1.0.8756 for package:
kmod-nvidia
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
--> Running transaction check
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package kmod-nvidia needs nvidia-kmod-common = 1.0.8756, this
is not available.

[Jonathan Berry]

On 6/4/06, Wong Kwok-hon  wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I got and error of nvidia-kmod-common not found when update the nvidia driver.
> When can I get this package ?

The driver version has been updated and for some reason the packages
won't update quite right.  There is no physical package
nvidia-kmod-common.  Simple fix: remove the old driver and then
reinstall it:
# yum remove kmod-nvidia
# yum install kmod-nvidia

That should get it working.  And if you are going to switch to the new
driver without rebooting, be sure to "rmmod nvidia" (the old driver in
memory) before restarting X or you will be wondering why you are
getting version mismatch errors like I did : ).

Jonathan