nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

[David Kramer]

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

kernel-2.6.24.3 : i686
kernel-2.6.24.3 : i686

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

nvidia-graphics169.12-kmdl-2.6.24.3-34.fc8-169.12 : i586

Looks good to me.