Re: nVidia drivers

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I experienced this a few times before when installing FC6 on some of
my friends' computers (I thought it was an installation error I've
done somewhere )

my solution was to install a different/older kernel .. boot into it ..
and reinstall the new kernel ...

or perhaps this is a bug


On 3/1/07, tokyoi@xxxxxxx <tokyoi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Jamie Bohr wrote:
> Yep, that is the problem.  Now .... how do I fix it?
>
> On 28 Feb 2007 17:21:24 -0600, *Jason L Tibbitts III*
> <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     >>>>> "JB" == Jamie Bohr < jamiebohr@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jamiebohr@xxxxxxxxx>> writes:
>
>     JB> I went to install a nvidia driver today and learned there are
>     JB> issues with livna.
>
>     Are you sure it's not an issue with your system?  Run
>       rpm -q --qf '%{ARCH}\n' kernel kernel-smp
>     and if it shows "i586" then the problem isn't with livna, it's with
>     your machine which has gotten the wrong kernel installed due to an
>     installer bug.  I can't recall at the moment the procedure for fixing
>     that.
>
>     - J<
>

This is detailed at

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common

Googling

  linux kernel 586 686 anaconda bug

will get you a raft of help. This has been discussed on this list
before, you can look through the February archives for more indications.

Best wishes,

Ian


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