Continued problems with kernel 2.6.40.3-0 and nvidia 280.13-2 in fc15 ?

[linux guy]

Am I the only one having problems with kernel 2.6.40.3-0 and/or
(a)kmod-nvidia 280.13-2 in fc14 and/or fc15 ?

My Dell duo won't boot the afore mentioned kernel at all.  It fails with a
kernel bug message.  It runs prior kernels just fine.

My HP laptop freezes during a graphical session login with the
aforementioned kernel and nvidia module.  It did so in FC14.  I upgraded to
fc15 and it does the same thing.

The same laptop runs the F15 Live iso just fine and also runs the
aforementioned kernel from the cli just fine.  The problem is only when a
graphical session is being used.

Is anyone else having the same problem or is it just me ?

[linux guy]

I suspect the lockup during the graphical session is due to an nvidia
problem.

I'd like to downgrade to
kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686-173.14.31-1.fc15.1, but there are
several conflicts with various xorg files that I am not sure how to
handle.

Has anyone successfully downgraded kmod-nvidia and solved this problem ?

Thanks

[linux guy]

I removed all yum entries related to nvidia and deleted xorg.conf and it
runs without crashing.

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:00 PM, linux guy  wrote:
> I removed all yum entries related to nvidia and deleted xorg.conf and it
> runs without crashing.

The reason you're not getting any replies is this belongs on the RPM
Fusion mailing list and not here, but to partially answer your
question, I'm running the 280.13 drivers without for the most part. I
have noticed that in one program that my buttons seem to disappear but
come back when I hover over them. I'm not sure if that's nvidia or a
gnome3/gtk bug.

Richard