F15 update: no more nvidia

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sunday 12 February 2012 17:17:55 jonetsu wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   This afternoon I updated the F15 x86_64 workstation I use.  There
> were quite a few updates in the pipe, so why not.  There was properly
> working nvidia setup which gave high Xorg resolution.
> 
>   Before proceeding there was a warning from yum about the nvidia to
> the effect that:
> 
> 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.16.x86_64
> 
> needs:
> 
> kernel-uname-r = 2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64
> 
> And that I should use '--skip-broken' to proceed.
[snip]
> When the update was done I rebooted and no more X server.  kernel
> 2.6.42.3-2.fc15.x86_64 was installed.
[snip]
> Is it possible to precisely ask yum to install the
> 2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64 kernel that would work with nvidia ?
> 
> Or...
> 
> How to get back high resolution and if possible, how to get it back with
> the new kernel that was just installed, 2.6.42.3-2.fc15.x86_64, to
> which I can point grub to ?

Most probably the kmod-nvidia for the 2.6.42.3 kernel is a bit late. I advise 
to boot into the latest kernel, do a "yum update kmod-nvidia" in the prompt, 
and see if it gets pulled in. If yes, it should start working with the new 
kernel. If not, wait a couple of days and retry.

While you wait for rpmfusion devs to produce the latest kmod, use whatever 
kernel works, at whatever resolution works... :-)

HTH, :-)
Marko