[Mageia-discuss] How to re-enable nvidia driver for new kernel?

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Thu Aug 23 20:21:52 CEST 2012


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...


> To send this I have had to choose the 3.3.6 kernel at boot time.
> XFdrake does not work in console mode so I am stumped at this point.
>
> Am I missing something, apart from my grey cells?
>
> Len
>

--
Thomas



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