I installed TrueCrypt and when I ran it, it informed me that I needed a new kernel. So I ran "yum update". I boot to level 3, and when I ran startx, I got:
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... (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" FATAL: Module nvidia not found. (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages. (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0) (EE) No drivers available.
Fatal server error: no screens found XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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If I boot with the old kernel, I can successfully run startx.
Thanks for your help. Mike.
The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
Jason Brown
On 01/17/2011 01:39 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote:
I installed TrueCrypt and when I ran it, it informed me that I needed a new kernel. So I ran "yum update". I boot to level 3, and when I ran startx, I got:
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... (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" FATAL: Module nvidia not found. (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages. (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0) (EE) No drivers available.
Fatal server error: no screens found XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
--
If I boot with the old kernel, I can successfully run startx.
Thanks for your help. Mike.
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On 01/17/2011 01:39 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote:
I installed TrueCrypt and when I ran it, it informed me that I needed a new kernel. So I ran "yum update". I boot to level 3, and when I ran startx, I got:
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FATAL: Module nvidia not found. (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
Jason Brown wrote:
The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
suggestion: install the kABI-tracking kmod from elrepo. They survive kernel updates.
[nthierry@tryo ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia kmod-nvidia-260.19.29-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64 nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-260.19.29-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64 nvidia-x11-drv-260.19.29-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64
On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote:
The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
which are kABI-tracking kmod packages that work seamlessly over a kernel update. They even work with the new 5.6 kernel and there are packages for el6 too.
If you do decide to switch to the elrepo packages, please make sure you *uninstall* the current NVIDIA provided driver first. The page above has details on how to do that.
Hope that helps.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:07:03 +0000, Ned Slider wrote:
On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote:
The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
which are kABI-tracking kmod packages that work seamlessly over a kernel update. They even work with the new 5.6 kernel and there are packages for el6 too.
If you do decide to switch to the elrepo packages, please make sure you *uninstall* the current NVIDIA provided driver first. The page above has details on how to do that.
Hope that helps.
After looking at the recommended web site, I did the uninstall, and then ran:
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11- drv 2>&1 | tee el.log
I got: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Error getting repository data for elrepo, repository not found
It seems that there may be another step.
Thanks for your help. Mike.
On 1/17/2011 3:08 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote:
After looking at the recommended web site, I did the uninstall, and then ran:
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11- drv 2>&1 | tee el.log
I got: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Error getting repository data for elrepo, repository not found
It seems that there may be another step.
You do need to set up elrepo if you have not used it before. Instructions are here:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
You will probably also want to install the yum priorities plugin to avoid conflicts between elrepo and the base repos (or any other third-party repos you may use).
http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
On 17/01/11 20:08, Michael D. Berger wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:07:03 +0000, Ned Slider wrote:
On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote:
The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
which are kABI-tracking kmod packages that work seamlessly over a kernel update. They even work with the new 5.6 kernel and there are packages for el6 too.
If you do decide to switch to the elrepo packages, please make sure you *uninstall* the current NVIDIA provided driver first. The page above has details on how to do that.
Hope that helps.
After looking at the recommended web site, I did the uninstall, and then ran:
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11- drv 2>&1 | tee el.log
I got: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Error getting repository data for elrepo, repository not found
It seems that there may be another step.
Please see the Getting Started instructions here:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 07:07:03PM +0000, Ned Slider wrote:
Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
which are kABI-tracking kmod packages that work seamlessly over a kernel update. They even work with the new 5.6 kernel and there are packages for el6 too.
I can vouch for the elrepo packages--they upgraded flawlessly during a recent kernel update.
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