howto revert kernel/nvidia/x11
John Austin
ja at jaa.org.uk
Fri Mar 7 18:47:40 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 11:55 -0500, John Minson wrote:
> Now that the latest kernel update (2.6.24.3-12) has broken most things
> vmware wise(vmplayer in my case) what is the proper way to revert back to
>
> kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 and the following that go with it
>
> kmod-nvidia
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
>
>
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The same happened to me - I wrote this to myself
Can't guarantee this is the best way but it worked!
fuerte hints_info 996# cat nvidia_yum_sorting_out
Carrying out a kernel update and then still wanting to use
the older kernel is a problem for nvidia
This occurred for update from 2.6.23.15-137 to 2.6.24.3-12
Vmware would not compile with the new kernel but the update
had upset the livna nvidia setup
Trying to solve the problem using yum failed as it always
insisted on installing the latest version of the livna files
If livna nvidia drivers etc get out of step then
Check the running kernel version
Remove existing files
yum remove kmod-nvidia-169.12-2.lvn8.x86_64
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
kmod-nvidia x86_64 169.12-2.lvn8 installed 0.0
Removing for dependencies:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 x86_64 169.09-5.lvn8 installed 11 M
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-115.fc8 x86_64 169.09-6.lvn8 installed 11 M
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 x86_64 169.09-7.lvn8 installed 11 M
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 x86_64 100.14.19-19.lvn8 installed 8.4 M
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 x86_64 169.07-1.lvn8 installed 11 M
kmod-nvidia-2.6.24.3-12.fc8 x86_64 169.12-2.lvn8 installed 11 M
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia x86_64 169.12-1.lvn8 installed 5.2 M
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs x86_64 169.12-1.lvn8 installed 14 M
Down load a set of matching files from livna
eg
fuerte nvidia 1002# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 22003 2008-03-07 17:33 kmod-nvidia-169.09-7.lvn8.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 2814244 2008-03-07 17:34 kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.15-137.fc8-169.09-7.lvn8.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 2108868 2008-03-07 17:36 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-169.09-6.lvn8.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 5212472 2008-03-07 17:44 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-169.09-6.lvn8.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall *.rpm
kernel 2.6.23.15-137 now runs OK --- for me !!!!!!!!!!!
Hope it helps
John
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