A long message for a long story... I wanted to upgrade my nvidia drivers from 6129 to 7174 as I have read about improvements in quality.
I was on FC2 kernel 2.6.9-1.11 but there were no nvidia 7174 drivers available for that kernel (via Synaptic). After some help in another post, I decided to use apt-get to install the drivers and it found and offered me a kernel that synaptic didn't - 2.6.10-1.770. I had earlier seen that all the other modules/drivers were available for this kernel (alsa, ivtv, lirc, video4linux, etc) so I went ahead and let apt install the newer nvidia stuff and newer kernel. It suggested all the dependencies, and they looked right to me. After, this was done, but before rebooting, I used Synaptic to install the remaining 2.6.10-1.770 drivers I needed (alsa, ivtv, lirc, video4linux). Then I rebooted. Then it went hellish. X no longer loads. I get the following error when it tries to start: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.7174, but this library is version 1.0.7167. Please be sure your kernel's module and all NVIDIA driver files have the same driver version. The error shows up right after the line "reading config from /etc/X11/xorg.conf" (or something like that - I am not at the mythbox). Which component of the drivers does this mean it thinks is 7167? Anyway, I assumed that apt had messed up a a dependency somewhere so started in that direction... But annoyingly, the kernel upgrade also took out my ndiswrapper-based wireless ethernet (wmp54g) and I don't seem to have the correct version of ndiswrapper to make it work (I have 0.10 and 1.0 source, but neither will work and both squawk about 4K stacks). So now I can't get on the net. My mobo has onboard ethernet which I had disabled, so I tried to revert to that running a long wire across the room, but I can't get it to come up. There was no ifcfg-eth0 file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, so I created a basic one. Through some combination of ifup, ifconfig and waving of dead chickens, the eth0 device did come up once and I got on the net long enough to confirm with apt that I had correctly installed all of the 7174 nvidia driver stuff (driver, lib and module), so I don't know why it says something is 7167. And I can't find any way to fix it. Furthermore, when I rebooted after making some other changes, eth0 now won't come up again even though the ifcfg file now exists. ifup eth0 generates no error, the device shows up as being detected at boot time in /var/log/messages, modprobe is correctly aliasing it, yet ifconfig eth0 says no device available. And I can't find a way to rollback to my prevous stable system. So, I am stuck with no Internet access and no X and no idea of how to fix it. Any suggestions? Has anyone seen this problem with nvidia 7174 and FC2 2.6.10-1.770? I can't find much helpful on the web. I seem to have painted myself into a corner and can't find a way out. Yet nothing "untoward" happened during my apt/synaptic installs... grrr Help/ideas would be truly appreciated. Thanks Robin _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
