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The 3.3.8 kernel came down this afternoon +</I>>><i> along with the nvidia modules. Installed them and restarted the PC as +</I>>><i> advised. No video driver but a message flashed by which said +</I>>><i> something like nvidia 297.51 already installed against this kernel +</I>>><i> (which was true of 3.3.6). The log messages gave no clue. All they +</I>>><i> said was could not load nvidia, presumably because the module had not +</I>>><i> been compiled against the kernel. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Hm, +</I>><i> the prebuilt modules for 3.3.8 should have been installed along with +</I>><i> the new kernel. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What does theese commands say: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> rpm -qa |grep nvidia +</I>><i> +</I>><i> rpm -qa kernel* +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> X fails also under the new kernel with xdriver=nouveau. Maybe vesa +</I>>><i> would work but I did not try that. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Now this sort of problem occurs again and again but on some lucky +</I>>><i> occasions dkms (?) comes into action at the reboot and recompiles the +</I>>><i> module and all is well. Why should it be so hit and miss, mostly +</I>>><i> miss? +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> dkms will only work if matching kernel-*-devel are installed... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>These are some of the checks I made: + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at belexeuli</A> lcl]# urpmi kernel-headers +Package kernel-userspace-headers-3.3.8-2.mga2.x86_64 is already installed + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">lcl at belexeuli</A> ~]$ rpm -qa |grep nvidia +x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree +nvidia-current-doc-html-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree +nvidia-current-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-295.49-4.mga2.nonfree +dkms-nvidia-current-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree +nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree +nvidia-current-kernel-3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">lcl at belexeuli</A> ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* +rpm: No match. + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at belexeuli</A> lcl]# urpmi kernel-desktop-devel +In order to satisfy the +'kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-1.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.6-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.6-2.mga2|kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-1.mga2' +dependency, one of the following packages is needed: + 1- kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.6-2.mga2-1-1.mga2.x86_64: The kernel-devel +files for kernel-desktop-3.3.6-2.mga2 (to upgrade) + 2- kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2-1-1.mga2.x86_64: The kernel-devel +files for kernel-desktop-3.3.8-2.mga2 (to upgrade) +What is your choice? (1-2) 2 +Package kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2-1-1.mga2.x86_64 is already +installed + +Very puzzling. Maybe something does need to be urpme'd as Doug suggested. + +Len + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008554.html">[Mageia-discuss] How to re-enable nvidia driver for new kernel? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008556.html">[Mageia-discuss] How to re-enable nvidia driver for new kernel? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8555">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8555">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8555">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8555">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |