DKMS Nvidia

Thom Paine painethom at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 14:00:03 UTC 2007


> Can you please summarize the solution as I have the same problem with
> FC5 box?

My kernel was the i586 kernel. I typed uname -a and only saw i686 so
thought I had the correct kernel installed. I knew about the i586/i686
kernel problem under FC6 but thought I was running the correct kernel.

I needed to use the long rpm command to verify that I had a i586
kernel installed.

There is a previous post concerning exactly this problem and I was
able to resolve my issue.

However, my X hangs right before it automatically logs in my mythtv
user. I suspect that it is a problem with my nvidia installation
because I have a Geforce 4 4000 and need to run the older
nvidia-x11-drv-96xx driver.

Installing this driver didn't seem to work because when my machine
boots it tells me that the driver is already installed (which is the
nvidia-x11-drv driver and it doesn't work on my card).

I'm going to try and remove dkms and reinstall it again. Failing that
I'm just going to wipe the box and start over. It's only a FE for my
mythbox.

Hope this helps.


-- 
-=/>Thom




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