nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:18 PM, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> I simply don't understand why this is the case, but every time I upgrade
> the .  After some updates, the symlinks point to the wrong version, etc.
>  But I will only address my current situation.  This is on a Dell D820.
>
> Currently running the newly-installed 2.6.24.3-34 kernel.
>
> This is the stdout/stderr when I startx:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> X Window System Version 1.3.0
> Release Date: 19 April 2007
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
> Build Operating System: Fedora 8 Red Hat, Inc.
> Current Operating System: Linux lexa.thekramers.net 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 #1
> SMP Wed Mar 12 18:17:20 EDT 2008 i686
> Build Date: 14 March 2008
> Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-44.fc8
>        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>        to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Mar 24 20:00:40 2008
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> (II) Module already built-in
> FATAL: Error inserting nvidia_169_12
> (/lib/modules/2.6.24.3-34.fc8
> /updates/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia-169_12.ko):
> Invalid module format
>


It seems to me that you have the wrong module.

Try this:

rpm -q --qf "%{name}-%{version} : %{arch}\n" kernel

rpm -q --qf "%{name}-%{version} : %{arch}\n"
nvidia-graphics169.12-kmdl-2.6.24.3-34.fc8


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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