On 23/08/12 20:12, Thomas Backlund wrote:
23.08.2012 21:47, Len Lawrence skrev:

[lcl@belexeuli ~]$ rpm -qa |grep nvidia
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree

so the new x11 driver is installed.

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

and so is the prebuilt module, so this should have worked :/

What does this show:

rpm -Vv  nvidia-current-kernel-3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree

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Thomas

Well now. I have just booted up my older slower test system and received and installed the kernel 3.3.8 updates. This install seemed to have worked flawlessly; the new kernel and the nvidia 295.71 driver sit well together. The only hitch was the initial logout from user. This stalled before the login screen could come up and I had to drop into console mode to reboot which indicates that the updates had already damaged something. Exactly the same thing happened with the production machine which has given all the trouble only there it was not possible to switch to console mode. It simply hung and I had to crash reboot.

I shall ask again if it is possible to backtrack in 3.3.8 (console mode only) and recompile the nvidia kernel interface locally. The 3.3.8 version is broken somehow on my production machine. The Xorg log shows that the system attempts to load it and smells something fishy and dumps it. The 3.3.6 version works perfectly but I still do not know how it came to be there. At one point I had run XFDrake in console mode for 3.3.8 and attempted to install the new driver (no errors reported but the driver did not work). Surely that would not have compiled it against 3.3.6?

Len

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