On Tue, June 24, 2008 3:08 pm, Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
Hi!
I know that the nvidia-drv-x11-package is from RPMForge, but I thought I might mention it here.
I have a machine with a NVidia-card and because of the ease of use I use the rpmforge-package for that.
After upgrading the problem was that during rebooting as soon as the machine hit the RHGB (which implicitly uses that driver) the machine froze. I booted into the old kernel removed rhgb, rebooted. Now the machine froze when starting X. Same procedure: Old Kernel. Remove nvidia-drv-x11. Reboot into the new kernel and reinstall nvidia-drv-x11. After a reboot everything works as it used to.
The cause of the problem could have been (sorry, I didn't do any thorough forensic) that the nvidia.ko that was used in the new kernel was a symbolic link from the "weak-updates"-directory into the old kernel "extra"-directory. Is it possible that this only works inside of kernels with the same x in CentOS 5.x ?
For the other machines I am upgrading I plan to
- deinstall nvidia-x11-drv
- do a regular "yum upgrade"
- reinstall nvidia-x11-drv after reboot
That is exactly what I did and my machine hangs again after nvidia-x11-drv is installed.