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

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.

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, >

>> 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

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.

>> 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.