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jrw3319 at gmail

Nov 17, 2009, 11:37 AM

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New NVIDIA Legacy Drivers for X Server 1.7

Hi Axel,

NVIDIA recently released new legacy drivers for the 173.xx and 96.xx series
with support for X Server 1.7. These releases seem to kind of go hand in
hand with the release of Fedora 12. I'm wondering if it would be possible
to get them added to the repo.

I'm getting ready to upgrade one of my systems to F12 which has an FX5200
video card (173.xx series). I don't know if the existing 173.14.20 drivers
are going to work or not, and don't want to have to install from the NVIDIA
binary package if possible.

Thanks,
John

jrw3319 at gmail

Nov 18, 2009, 11:23 AM

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Re: New NVIDIA Legacy Drivers for X Server 1.7 [In reply to]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 [at] gmail> wrote:

> Hi Axel,
>
> NVIDIA recently released new legacy drivers for the 173.xx and 96.xx series
> with support for X Server 1.7. These releases seem to kind of go hand in
> hand with the release of Fedora 12. I'm wondering if it would be possible
> to get them added to the repo.
>
> I'm getting ready to upgrade one of my systems to F12 which has an FX5200
> video card (173.xx series). I don't know if the existing 173.14.20 drivers
> are going to work or not, and don't want to have to install from the NVIDIA
> binary package if possible.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
To follow up on my own message, I just upgraded my F11 system with an FX5200
video card to F12, and the NVidia 173.14.20 drivers from ATrpms do not
work. I just get a black screen and an error message in Xorg.0.log saying:

"/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol:
resVgaShared"

A Google search of this message shows that it has something to do with X
Server 1.7.

I've switched to the nouveau driver just to get my system running, and I'm
considering installing the binary package directly from NVidia for the
172.14.22 driver, which is supposed to support X Server 1.7.

For anyone else running the legacy NVidia drivers from ATrpms be forewarned
that you will probably have issues if you try to upgrade to Fedora 12.

John

Axel.Thimm at ATrpms

Nov 22, 2009, 11:42 PM

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Re: New NVIDIA Legacy Drivers for X Server 1.7 [In reply to]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:23:05PM -0500, John Welch wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 [at] gmail> wrote:
> > NVIDIA recently released new legacy drivers for the 173.xx and 96.xx series
> > with support for X Server 1.7. These releases seem to kind of go hand in
> > hand with the release of Fedora 12. I'm wondering if it would be possible
> > to get them added to the repo.

OK, done!
--
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J.Pilk at tesco

Nov 23, 2009, 1:26 PM

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Re: New NVIDIA Legacy Drivers for X Server 1.7 [In reply to]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:23:05PM -0500, John Welch wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 [at] gmail> wrote:
>>> NVIDIA recently released new legacy drivers for the 173.xx and 96.xx series
>>> with support for X Server 1.7. These releases seem to kind of go hand in
>>> hand with the release of Fedora 12. I'm wondering if it would be possible
>>> to get them added to the repo.
>
> OK, done!
>
>
After upgrading MythTV on CentOS 5.4 from 0.22-220 to 0.22-222 and
upgrading from nvidia 96.43.13 to 96.43.14, mythbackend wouldn't start
because it wanted libvdpau.so.1

nvidia-graphics190.42-libs provides this and Myth is happy after it is
installed, but has the same problem after a reboot. Please, how do I
avoid the need to reinstall the libs before use? Modprobe?

And also, please, what is the procedure now for nvidia-graphics-switch?
X doesn't restart automatically on a fresh login, but is OK after a reboot.

John P

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J.Pilk at tesco

Nov 24, 2009, 8:38 AM

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Re: New NVIDIA Legacy Drivers for X Server 1.7 [In reply to]

John Pilkington wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:23:05PM -0500, John Welch wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 [at] gmail> wrote:
>>>> NVIDIA recently released new legacy drivers for the 173.xx and 96.xx
>>>> series
>>>> with support for X Server 1.7. These releases seem to kind of go
>>>> hand in
>>>> hand with the release of Fedora 12. I'm wondering if it would be
>>>> possible
>>>> to get them added to the repo.
>>
>> OK, done!
>>
>>
> After upgrading MythTV on CentOS 5.4 from 0.22-220 to 0.22-222 and
> upgrading from nvidia 96.43.13 to 96.43.14, mythbackend wouldn't start
> because it wanted libvdpau.so.1

I think I had probably also 'tidied up' a -libs package that had been
installed earlier, automagically, to satisfy this dependency :-(

>
> nvidia-graphics190.42-libs provides this and Myth is happy after it is
> installed, but has the same problem after a reboot. Please, how do I
> avoid the need to reinstall the libs before use? Modprobe?
>
> And also, please, what is the procedure now for nvidia-graphics-switch?
> X doesn't restart automatically on a fresh login, but is OK after a reboot.
>
> John P
>

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms

Nov 24, 2009, 12:19 PM

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Re: New NVIDIA Legacy Drivers for X Server 1.7 [In reply to]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:26:20PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:23:05PM -0500, John Welch wrote:
> >>On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 [at] gmail> wrote:
> >>>NVIDIA recently released new legacy drivers for the 173.xx and 96.xx series
> >>>with support for X Server 1.7. These releases seem to kind of go hand in
> >>>hand with the release of Fedora 12. I'm wondering if it would be possible
> >>>to get them added to the repo.
> >
> >OK, done!
> >
> >
> After upgrading MythTV on CentOS 5.4 from 0.22-220 to 0.22-222 and
> upgrading from nvidia 96.43.13 to 96.43.14, mythbackend wouldn't
> start because it wanted libvdpau.so.1

What is the error message? rpm/yum should never allow installing a
package w/o it's (known) libs.

> nvidia-graphics190.42-libs provides this and Myth is happy after it
> is installed, but has the same problem after a reboot. Please, how
> do I avoid the need to reinstall the libs before use? Modprobe?

rpm should had taken care of it. Regardless of why the dependency
wasn't satsfied, there are libvdpau packages in ATrpms that are
targetted for replacing all nvidia specific ones, so I would yum
install libvdau.

> And also, please, what is the procedure now for nvidia-graphics-switch?
> X doesn't restart automatically on a fresh login, but is OK after a reboot.

init 3
nvidia-graphics-switch ...
init 5

But in some rare occasions a reboot is required to reset the hardware
properly.
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J.Pilk at tesco

Nov 25, 2009, 4:00 AM

Post #7 of 7 (1134 views)
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Re: New NVIDIA Legacy Drivers for X Server 1.7 [In reply to]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:26:20PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:23:05PM -0500, John Welch wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 [at] gmail> wrote:
>>>>> NVIDIA recently released new legacy drivers for the 173.xx and 96.xx series
>>>>> with support for X Server 1.7. These releases seem to kind of go hand in
>>>>> hand with the release of Fedora 12. I'm wondering if it would be possible
>>>>> to get them added to the repo.
>>> OK, done!
>>>
>>>
>> After upgrading MythTV on CentOS 5.4 from 0.22-220 to 0.22-222 and
>> upgrading from nvidia 96.43.13 to 96.43.14, mythbackend wouldn't
>> start because it wanted libvdpau.so.1
>
> What is the error message? rpm/yum should never allow installing a
> package w/o it's (known) libs.

The error message just said it couldn't find that module at runtime. It
isn't in the 96.xx drivers. But I think rpm had found it in a lib
package installed earlier in pursuit of 'bijou' with another driver that
didn't support my hardware, so rpm didn't look for the libvdpau package.
A driver's lib package isn't removed when the driver is removed, and
it was my 'tidying' of this that apparently caused the problem.
>
>> nvidia-graphics190.42-libs provides this and Myth is happy after it
>> is installed, but has the same problem after a reboot. Please, how
>> do I avoid the need to reinstall the libs before use? Modprobe?
>
> rpm should had taken care of it. Regardless of why the dependency
> wasn't satsfied, there are libvdpau packages in ATrpms that are
> targetted for replacing all nvidia specific ones, so I would yum
> install libvdau.

My yum configuration needs attention, but once I realised that it was
just supposed to look for a package *called* libvdpau I installed it
with smart.
>
>> And also, please, what is the procedure now for nvidia-graphics-switch?
>> X doesn't restart automatically on a fresh login, but is OK after a reboot.
>
> init 3
> nvidia-graphics-switch ...
> init 5
>
> But in some rare occasions a reboot is required to reset the hardware
> properly.

It works without the reboot but I need to give the paths /sbin/ and
/usr/sbin/ explicitly. Thanks!!

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