On 23/08/12 19:21, Thomas Backlund wrote:
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...
These are some of the checks I made:
[root@belexeuli lcl]# urpmi kernel-headers
Package kernel-userspace-headers-3.3.8-2.mga2.x86_64 is already installed
[lcl@belexeuli ~]$ rpm -qa |grep nvidia
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree
nvidia-current-doc-html-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-295.49-4.mga2.nonfree
dkms-nvidia-current-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree
[lcl@belexeuli ~]$ rpm -qa kernel*
rpm: No match.
[root@belexeuli lcl]# urpmi kernel-desktop-devel
In order to satisfy the
'kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-1.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.6-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.6-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-1.mga2'
dependency, one of the following packages is needed:
1- kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.6-2.mga2-1-1.mga2.x86_64: The kernel-devel
files for kernel-desktop-3.3.6-2.mga2 (to upgrade)
2- kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2-1-1.mga2.x86_64: The kernel-devel
files for kernel-desktop-3.3.8-2.mga2 (to upgrade)
What is your choice? (1-2) 2
Package kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2-1-1.mga2.x86_64 is already
installed
Very puzzling. Maybe something does need to be urpme'd as Doug suggested.
Len
