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 > > 1. deinstall nvidia-x11-drv > 2. do a regular "yum upgrade" > 3. reinstall nvidia-x11-drv after reboot That is exactly what I did and my machine hangs again after nvidia-x11-drv is installed.