Hi,
I need a set of nvidia rpms for an old rhel6 dell notebook with a
nvidia 8400.
Since I upgrades to rhel 6.6, the ones I used stopped to work.
Does anyone know what is the appropriate version now?
Also, I have a new le novo notebook running f21. Anyone has
experience with bumblebee and nvidia optimus technology?
Definitively, nouveau did not work with bumblebee ...
By the way, atrpms-rpm-config need to be fixed for f21. The place
macros are kept now has changed,
and the original package is creating rpm names with f21 instead
of fc21. For now, I created a symbolic
link for macros.dist to /etc/rpm.
Thanks.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Collier
<judi...@bigpond.net.au <mailto:judi...@bigpond.net.au>> wrote:
On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier wrote:
On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:
I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6
(2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210 card and the
nvidia 319.32 driver.
About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my
Xorg server (now I have
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and
after that I started getting a driver mismatch error
(ABI 15 I seem to recall). Anyway, I've seen this
before, and I believe this means the nvidia 319
driver is at a lower version than is needed, so I
figured all I need is an nvidia upgrade. If I
remember right, the driver from atrpms was still far
enough behind to cause the ABI 15 error, so I tried
kmod-nvidia from elrepo. After removing the old
nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in these nvidia
libraries:
nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the
case before), so I am not sure if this is a problem
or not. When I start the desktop, everything seems
fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none of the
myth GUIs will start. I get a segmentation fault
with both the mythfrontend and mythtv-setup. Even
with --verbose, mythfrontend gives me nothing to work
with.
As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade
using scrpms. With this upgrade, I was forced to
move up to kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686, so at
least I know this update is pulling in an
nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod. In the end, this upgrade
attempt was less successful than the kmod upgrade in
that the nvidia driver is never able to load, so the
desktop never starts. At the bottom of Xorg.0.log it
shows this:
[ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
[ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
[ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia"
(module does not exist, 0)
[ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
[ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
[ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support
at http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds. I
tried nvidia-xconfig to recreate the xorg.conf, but
no go. Of course I am rebooting every time to get a
clean start. After many attempts, it looks like
kmod-nvidia 340.65 may be my best option.
Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the
nvidia 340.xx driver? Alternatively, if anyone has
ideas on how to get the scrpms nvidia driver to work,
I am open to trying that again too.
I have options, but nothing looks good. Downgrading
Xorg seems problematic, so I didn't go there. I
suppose I could upgrade myth to version 0.27 and see
what happens, but that presents some difficulty on
EL6 (although I know that scrpms has compiled both
myth 0.27 and the compatible version of Qt). It also
triggers multiple myth upgrades for BE-FE
compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7, but
that requires a decent effort too since there is no
good upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).
I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat
schizophrenic. I can provide more details if anyone
can lend a hand.
Larry
I'm sorry for the delay - I'll have a look and do some
testing with my el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6
32bit to 64 as a path to el7 If you want I'll send you
the process.
Cheers
Stephen
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I've found the problem and fixed it. The src rpms are built -
the updated nvidia drivers will build over the next hour or so.
Cheers
Stephen
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