FC6, nVidia will be the death of me.

[benjo]

I've recently fresh installed fc5. Everything worked fine. I installed nVidia just fine too.

I've now upgraded to FC6 and im having problems with nVidia. I've been following the prompts at this site "http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html#nvidia".
When i do a yum install i get this

Transaction Check Error:   package kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 is already installed
  file /boot/System.map-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
  file /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
  file /boot/symvers-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.gz from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
  file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6

I don't understand what this means. To me it looks like nVidia is already installed or something??? (can you tell how much of a noob i am at the moment?)
So next i did this

rpm -aq | grep nvidia

and i get nothing in my output. Does that mean it's not installed?

Next i tried the "manual" install by trying to match a "kmod-nvidia" driver with a "xorg-x11-drv-nvidia" driver with my kernel.
So 1st i do

 uname -rm
and get
2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 i686

Next i go to "http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/" and find:
1. kmod-nvidia-1.0.9629-1.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6.i686.rpm (seems to match the kernel????)
2. xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9629-1.lvn6.i386.rpm (seems to match the kmod???)
Next,

sudo rpm -ivh kmod-nvidia-1.0.9629-1.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6.i686.rpm \ xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9629-1.lvn6.i386.rpm

and i get this

error: Failed dependencies: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 is needed by kmod-nvidia-1.0.9629-1.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6.i686

So i guess i should have xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9629-1.lvn6.i686.rpm? Problem is, there's no such thing! And to make matters worse, i cant find anything on http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/ that matches up!
I'm i totally barking up the wrong tree here?? Am i really missing some vital piece of obvious (to you) information?
So next i try

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9629-pkg1.run

from the Ctrl+Alt+F1 command prompt at login. After turning off X-thingy with "init 3" it starts ok but then i get some rubbish about kernel this and kernel that. I'm really lost. I started walking into water that went over my head about 3 days ago.

I thought that maybe i should do this

su -c "rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm"

But all i get is

package kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) is already installed

I'm going postal here. Somebody please point me to a helpful site or tell me to go back to windows or tell me to give up computing all together, anything would be helpful.

[jim]

run this...Whats the output

rpm -q --qf='%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' kernel

[benjo]

And there it is

kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i586
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i586

This is the bug i've been reading about isn't it?
Can you point me in the right direction? Thanx for your interest by the way.

[Jongi]

This site recommends:

# su -c "yum install yum-utils"
# yumdownloader kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686
# su -c "rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm"

Copy and paste the 3 commands (not the # though)

[benjo]

Originally Posted by Jongi

This site recommends:

# su -c "yum install yum-utils"
# yumdownloader kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686
# su -c "rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm"

Copy and paste the 3 commands (not the # though)

Yeah i tried that before but i keep getting the same result

package kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) is already installed

I've been working with this page too "Anaconda/Updates" but i don't understand this line

Then, boot the installer with

linux updates

and you will be prompted to provide the location of your update disk.

I've copied the img to disk, do i just restart? Is this the right thing to be doing?

[Jongi]

have you tried changing the 2798 to 2849

# yumdownloader kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686

[benjo]

Alrighty, so here's the output for

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sort

kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686
kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i386
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686

Everything seems to be working fine with the kernel (thankyou greatly), but im still getting a n error on startup, what do you make of this-

[root@merc ~]# /sbin/modprobe acpi-cpufreq
WARNING: Error inserting freq_table (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.ko): Operation not permitted
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device

[benjo]

Oh, and the nVidia drivers are working fine now. (another thankyou).

[Dies]

Open a terminal and type su - hit enter then your pass and type system-config-services then go to edit run level and select all now uncheck cpuspeed and save. That should fix it. You don't need it unless you're on a laptop.
You might want to check here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=102853
and disable anything you don't need, it'll speed things up a little.

[benjo]

HEY HEY! All is fixed now. Thanx to everyone on this page, i really appreciate the input. And im sorry for my verbose posting, ill try to keep it a bit more concise in the future and maybe do a little more reading on the subject at hand.
Thanx once agian.