Re: nvidia 304.64
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.
> 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,