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

[Len Lawrence]

On 23/08/12 20:12, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 23.08.2012 21:47, Len Lawrence skrev:
>>
>> [lcl at 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
>
> -- 
> 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