On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:58 PM, John Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > Axel fixed it in the new release of the nvidia driver available today. Should work now .... -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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