Kernel 2.6.25.4-10.fc8 no X w/ nvidia dkms from freshrpms

Jason Turning jturning at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 9 03:20:12 UTC 2008


Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
>>>> Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>>> After updaing to kernel 2.6.25.4-10.fc8 X will not load. dkms runs and
>>>>> says it's loading the module but X fails to run. Choosing my previous
>>>>> (still installed) kernel 2.6.24.7-92.fc8 boots fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone else run into any X issues with the latest kernel?
>>>>>
>>>> With Fedora 9, an update to 2.6.24.4-30 has just broken X on my machine,
>>>> while rebooting to 2.6.24.3-18 works OK. In my case X usually loads, but
>>>> the X display is scrambled. I have a Matrox 400 card in this machine. I
>>>> was wondering if they broke the Matrox driver or more general X related
>>>> code. It looks like it may be the general code, as it seems people with
>>>> various cards are complaining in various forums.
>>> I reported something similar, on my F9 system, but in my case, X doesn't
>>> come up scrambled...it doesn't start at all, on initial boot to runlevel
>>> 5.  If I "init 3" and then "init 5" again, or if I log in and run
>>> "startx", it's fine.  X just won't start, initially, in runlevel 5.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Burger
>>> http://www.bubbanfriends.org
>> I ran dkms manually got got a Status 10: Build Failed... going to try
>> with --verbose and see if I can find out what happened.
>>
>> Richard
> 
> Ok, I just downloaded the latest 173 drivers from Nvidia and they
> installed properly. Is there something inherently incompatible with
> the 2.6.25 kernal and 169 drivers? Also, why are the 169 drivers the
> latest available from freshrpms, atrpms, and livna?
> 
> Richard
> 

Same experience, the NVIDIA 173 (7 series) driver worked for me on Fedora 8 
when the 169 driver install failed.

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