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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