I have a Fedora 9 system with a Nvidia 8600 GT graphics card. I have been using the nvidia-x11-drv package from the Freshrpms repo, but this is only because it was the first package released for F9 that worked for me. I would prefer to use the ATrpms Nvidia packages since this is what I have always used on my other Fedora systems; plus I would rather minimize the use of other 3rd party repos to minimize the chance of package conflicts.
I have the Nvidia 173.14.05 packages installed from ATrpms, however I have run into an issue. The nvidia-graphics173.14.05-173.14.05-98.fc9.i386 package installs the file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/nvidia-graphics-173.14.05/libwfb.so and creates a symbolic link to it in the /usr/lib/xorg/modules directory. Despite the fact that this symbolic link exists in one of the directories referenced in the ModulePath directives in my xorg.conf file, when I start up my system X does not start properly and I get the following at the tail end of the Xorg.0.log file: (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART. (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (EE) NVIDIA(0): Need libwfb but wfbScreenInit not found Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 Prior to installing the ATrpms nvidia packages the libwfb.so file was already installed on my system, from the xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.i386.rpm package. I have found that by reinstalling this package my system works again. Related to this I found the following note on the Freshrpms repo: * Fri May 16 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 173.08-2 - No longer install libwfb.so, since Fedora 9 provides it now. So, basically my system is back up and running just fine, but I have a feeling that subsequent nvidia upgrades from ATrpms may break things again. Far be it from me, an end user, to question Axel and the other package maintainers, but it seems as if the libwfb.so file does not need to be included in the Nvidia packages. I did some searching for this error message and it seems that only newer Nvidia cards need this file, so that explains why some people have been able to use the packages without any issues. Thanks, John _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
