Still trouble with Livna NVidia drivers

[Les]

On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 08:39 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> I have yet to successfully get yum to download the Livna NVidia drivers, 
> so I thought I'd just grab the RPMs directly from rpm.livna.org and 
> install by hand.  This is the result.  This happens even after I run 
> "system-config-display --reconfig" before installing.  Any clues, anyone?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> $ sudo rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-4.lvn6.i386.rpm 
> kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2948.fc6.i686.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
>     1:kmod-nvidia            ########################################### [ 50%]
>     2:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia    ########################################### [100%]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 146, in ?
>      app = nvidiaConfigDisplay()
>    File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 52, in __init__
>      self.run()
>    File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 129, in run
>      self.enable()
>    File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 67, in enable
>      self.toggleDriver(currentDriver, self.majorVendor)
>    File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py", 
> line 119, in toggleDriver
>      dev.driver = newDriver
> TypeError: Expected a string
> 
> 
> -- 
>  		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
> 
Hi, Matthew,
    I had the same issue last week.  I discovered that the downloaded
driver was too short (something like 12Mb vs 27Mb if IRC).  I downloaded
again and it got the full thing and worked correctly.

Regards,
Les H