Livna Nvidia with Kernel 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/19/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:14:09PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 6/19/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> > >On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:45:41PM -0500, John Pierce wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >[root at phoenix X11]# modprobe nvidia.ko
> > >> >FATAL: Module nvidia.ko not found.
> > >>
> > >> try modprobe without the .ko
> > >>
> > >> as in modprobe nvidia
> > >
> > >[root at phoenix X11]# modprobe nvidia
> > >FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
> > >(/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3228.fc7/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko): No such device
> > >[root at phoenix X11]# lspci | grep VGA
> > >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX
> > >440] (rev a3)
> > >
> >
> > You need 1.0-9639
>
> Thank you. I take you mean I need the 96xx RPMs.

I guess.  I don't follow the RPMs at all.  You need 1.0-9639 to
support that GPU.  How you get it is up to you.

>
> What I did was:
>
> yum erase xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
> yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx
>
> That seemed to work:
>
> [root at phoenix ~]# lsmod | grep -i nvidia
> nvidia               4719284  22
> i2c_core               24641  5 eeprom,lm85,i2c_ec,nvidia,i2c_i801
>
> Now, how did you know that that was the right thing to do? I don't see
> anything on the Livna wiki page
> (http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher) about this.

I work for NVIDIA.  But even if I didn't the driver README documents
which GPUs are supported in which releases.  The official driver
installer would also refuse to install the driver if your GPU wasn't
supported.  Looks like Livna's RPMs have a bug if they don't enforce
this check.