Laptop is a Dell Latitude D630 with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M. X was working yesterday, until yum update installed new kernels. At boot it complains: "checking for module nvidia.ko [failed] nvidia.ko for kernel ***14-108.PAE was not found the nvidia driver will not be unabled until" blah blah * Where could I find the full text of that error message after boot? Is it just gone? Not in dmesg or /var/log/messages or /var/log/X*. After some groping I figured out that all's well if I re-executed nvidia-xconfig and boot from a kernel that matches one of my installed kmod-nvidia s. Yum updated my kernels, livna is behind on kmod-nvidia, I think this was discussed here recently. I decided to put some of my breadcrumbs in this post in case someone else ends up in the same boat or I ever have to remember what happened. # grep 'Aug 12 ' /var/log/yum.log|grep -e kernel -e Erase Aug 12 22:47:13 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i386 Aug 12 22:47:39 Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Aug 12 22:47:54 Installed: kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Aug 12 22:48:15 Erased: kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686.PAE Aug 12 22:48:16 Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Aug 12 22:48:16 Installed: kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 So I reinstalled what got erased. yum install kmod-nvidia Now... # tail -n5 /var/log/yum.log Aug 12 22:48:15 Erased: kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686.PAE Aug 12 22:48:16 Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Aug 12 22:48:16 Installed: kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Aug 13 09:16:10 Installed: kmod-nvidia-173.14.12-2.lvn9.i686 Aug 13 09:16:15 Installed: kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686-173.14.12-2.lvn9.i686 But at boot it still complains. Well, there is an nvidia.ko there now: # rpm -q --filesbypkg kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686.i686 kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 /lib/modules/2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686/extra/nvidia kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 /lib/modules/2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko But it's not a match for the kernel I am currently using, which is: # uname -a Linux *** 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 13:57:11 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux And... rpm -qa|grep nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.12-1.lvn9.i386 kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686-173.14.12-2.lvn9.i686 kmod-nvidia-PAE-173.14.12-2.lvn9.i686 kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686.PAE-173.14.12-2.lvn9.i686 kmod-nvidia-173.14.12-2.lvn9.i686 Is telling me that I have nvidia packages for kernel 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 and 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686.PAE. So I should try booting one of those kernels. Which worked. Don't forget to nvidia-xconfig. And as always, with nvidia proprietary drivers (installed from livna), the usual system/administration/display panel doesn't work, instead use nvidia-settings from the command line. buena suerte, Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
