nvidia 304.64

[John Pilkington]

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/kmod-nvidia-304.88-1.fc17.3.x86_64.rpm
>
>      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.