FC6 and NVidia (again ;-))

[Andre Costa]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:25:59 -0300
Andre Costa <andre.ocosta at terra.com.br> wrote:

> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:16:03 +0200
> Matthias Saou
> <thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Andre Costa wrote :
> > 
> > > I just installed FC6. NVidia had been working great with FC5 thks
> > > to Matthias dkms packages; however, now dkms complains during
> > > boot that there's no kernel-source for the current kernel.
> > > Indeed, there's no kernel source:
> > > 
> > > rpm -qa kernel\*
> > > kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> > > kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> > > kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> > > 
> > > But the point is that there was no kernel-source with my previous
> > > FC5 installation either, and dkms worked just fine (IIRC
> > > kernel-devel should be enough). I wouldn't like to install
> > > kernel-source just for this, is it really necessary or am I
> > > missing something?
> > 
> > You've probably been bitten by the installer bug where you get an
> > i586 kernel installed instead of the correct i686 :-(
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941
> > 
> > To check : rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\t%{arch}\n' 'kernel*'
> > 
> > The solution is to back up your grub.conf, remove the i586 kernel,
> > install the i686 one and restore your grub.conf.
> > 
> > Matthias
> 
> Right on the money:
> 
> rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\t%{arch}\n' 'kernel*'
> kernel-headers  i386
> kernel  i586
> kernel-devel    i686
> 
> Stupid bug... =/
> 
> I'll try to fix it the way you suggested. More info on that later.
> 
> Thks for the tip,

Just a quick followup: I removed i586 kernel and installed i686, and
next reboot installed NVidia driver as it was supposed to be (running
it as we speak ;-)).

Thks again Matthias =)

Regards,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa