Re: nvidia 304.64

On Ter, 2013-04-23 at 20:01 +0100, John Pilkington wrote: > On 23/04/13 18:41, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > On Ter, 2013-04-23 at 12:31 +0100, John Pilkington wrote: > >> Hi: I've just moved my Fedora 17 box from ATrpms to rpmfusion. I had a > >> problem with OpenGL and nVidia 304.64, which I think I had seen before > >> with the ATrpms build but had worked around by reverting to 304.51 > >> That's no longer easy. I'm using a GeForce 7500 LE card, not vdpau capable. > >> > >> The packages as installed load modules from X.org instead of those from > >> nVidia. The driver seems ok after editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf like this: > >> > >> Section "Files" > >> # ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" > >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg" > >> # ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions" > >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" > >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1" > >> EndSection > >> > >> as suggested here: > >> > >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=286084 > > > > > > repoquery --envra --releasever=17 \*nvidia\* > > > > 1:kmod-nvidia-304.88-1.fc17.3.x86_64 > > > > so > > yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia > > > > Don't understand if you have any problem , but consider first uninstall > > ATrpms which we already have on repos , to avoid conflicts ... > > It crashed and returned me to the login screen when GL was tried (from > mythtvsetup) or queried from the nvidia control panel. > > I didn't have updates-testing enabled. Is it seen as part of the normal > setup? > > The latest in updates is what I have now, with nvidia-settings,

> 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 so don't understand , or I may miss something in nvidia versions ... anyway about crash , please open a bug , and attach at least /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old after crash and LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo > >> And I have another unrelated observation: > >> > >> The '*config-smart-17-2.x86_64' package in nonfree-updates claims to > >> apply to nonfree but is named free and conflicts with the one in the > >> 'free-updates' repo. > > > > > > you need or use smart ? > > I like to have it available, in part for the info that it makes easily > accessible. I wouldn't expect to use all the flavours that the config > package for 'free' offers. I just pointed it at the download1 web > pages. I have 1.4.1 based on the unpatched tarball and Axel's specfile. > > > > > > Best regards, > >