Re: nvidia 304.64

On 24/04/13 10:30, John Pilkington wrote: > >>>> nvidia-xconfig showing as updated to 304.60 but ok. I don't think I >>>> have >>>> any relevant ATrpms packages installed now, and the URL shows that >>>> 304.64 has given other people trouble. >>> >>> repoquery --envra --releasever=17 \*nvidia\* >>> --disablerepo=free-fedora-update-testing >>> >>> you have >>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304.88-1.fc17.x86_64 >>> and >>> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-20.fc17.x86_64 > > Yes, but 304.88 is in nonfree-update-testing, so your test still sees it. > > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/17/x86_64/k... > > 19-Apr-2013 11:04 38K > > Anyway, I have installed it and all seems ok. xorg.conf remains as it > was after my edit, so the nvidia modules are being loaded and it works, > at least for me. > > It's probably not worth making changes to the 304.64 packages now, since > they will presumably soon disappear and this thread is in the archive. I > was just trying to make several simultaneous major changes to my system > and a broken graphics driver didn't help. > > Cheers > > John P > And I see that /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-nvidia.conf, provided by xorg-x11-drv-nvidia, has the same intended effect as my edit to xorg.conf; it just looks as if xorg.conf had precedence.