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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] How to re-enable nvidia driver for new kernel?</H1>
<B>Thomas Backlund</B>
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<I>Thu Aug 23 20:21:52 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>23.08.2012 20:15, Len Lawrence skrev:
><i> Kernel update troubles. 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.
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Hm,
the prebuilt modules for 3.3.8 should have been installed along with
the new kernel.
What does theese commands say:
rpm -qa |grep nvidia
rpm -qa kernel*
><i> X fails also under the new kernel with xdriver=nouveau. Maybe vesa
</I>><i> would work but I did not try that.
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</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?
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dkms will only work if matching kernel-*-devel are installed...
><i> To send this I have had to choose the 3.3.6 kernel at boot time.
</I>><i> XFdrake does not work in console mode so I am stumped at this point.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Am I missing something, apart from my grey cells?
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</I>><i> Len
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Thomas
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