23.08.2012 20:15, Len Lawrence skrev:
Kernel update troubles. The 3.3.8 kernel came down this afternoon along with the nvidia modules. Installed them and restarted the PC as advised. No video driver but a message flashed by which said something like nvidia 297.51 already installed against this kernel (which was true of 3.3.6). The log messages gave no clue. All they said was could not load nvidia, presumably because the module had not been compiled against the kernel.
Hm, the prebuilt modules for 3.3.8 should have been installed along with the new kernel. What does theese commands say: rpm -qa |grep nvidia rpm -qa kernel*
X fails also under the new kernel with xdriver=nouveau. Maybe vesa would work but I did not try that. Now this sort of problem occurs again and again but on some lucky occasions dkms (?) comes into action at the reboot and recompiles the module and all is well. Why should it be so hit and miss, mostly miss?
dkms will only work if matching kernel-*-devel are installed...
To send this I have had to choose the 3.3.6 kernel at boot time. XFdrake does not work in console mode so I am stumped at this point. Am I missing something, apart from my grey cells? Len
-- Thomas
