[PlanetCCRMA] Re: nvidia driver

[jim ruxton]

Thanks Axel,

Are these in the planet repository or do I have to add a new URL line
for ATRPMs.
Jim
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:04:55PM -0400, jim ruxton wrote:
> > > >jim ruxton <cinetron@passport.ca> wrote:
> > > >> Hi I'm trying to update my nvidia driver module but when I did X stopped
> > > >> working. Could it be because I have a different gcc than what the planet
> > > >> kernel is compiled on? I downloaded and installed this rpm below but no
> > > >> luck. I'm using Fedora 1. and gcc 3.3.2
> > > >> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc1/nvidia-graphics/kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6106-2.4.26-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma-1.0_6106-60.rhfc1.at.i586.rpm.html
> > > >>  Any thoughts ..
> 
> > Thanks for sending me your XF86Config file Andrew. The only thing that I
> > could see was you are loading "GLcore" and "dri" which according to the
> > latest documentation from NVIDIA should be removed . I put it in anyway
> > and got an additional error : (   as seen below for "libdri"
> > 
> > Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
> > Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
> > Symbol xf86XvMCDestroyAdaptorRec from module
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > Symbol xf86XvMCCreateAdaptorRec from module
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
> > 
> > If anyone else has any thoughts for me please let me know. Thanks.
> > Jim
> 
> If you are using the rpms, you need more than the kernel-module, you
> also need nvidia-graphics6111 and nvidia-graphics6111-libs, as well as
> nvidia-graphics-switch. Easiest way to go rpm is to use apt with
> 
> apt-get install kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6111-`uname -r`
> apt-get install nvidia-graphics6111
> 
> An nvidia ready config file will be placed under xorg.conf.nvidia or
> XF86Config.nvidia respecitively. After inspecting the changes you can
> remove the ".nvidia" suffix.