FC12 and nVidia GeForce Fx5200

[gastonv]

Hello,

From 28-01-2009, for nVidia in FC10, after a solution in this splendid forum, I had yum installed kmod-nvidia-173xx drivers.
And I worked all the time with not any problem, and by yum updating a new kernel, there was an update for kmod-nvidia-173xx.

Yesterday, I made an upgrade to FC12.
But by a following yum update, the old kmod-nvidia-173xx drivers were not updated, and the old ones are not working any more.

[root@d51520994 gastonv]# yum list installed | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-173xx.i586
kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586.i586
kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586.i586
kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586.i586
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx.i586
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.i586
[root@d51520994 gastonv]# yum update kmod-nvidia-173xx
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

So, there is not an update available.

Perhaps, I have to be patient an have to wait until a new update for FC12 is available?

Many thanks for each answer.
Greetings,
Gaston Verhulst.

[glennzo]

Must be nothing available for Fedora 12 yet. Usually something like yum list knod-nvidia* will list all of the kmod-nvidia that is available. I see nothing. Same with yum list akmod-nvidia*. Or maybe I'm missing a repository ...

[Hobashira]

For reasons unclear to me, they are in:

rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing

Originally Posted by glennzo

Must be nothing available for Fedora 12 yet. Usually something like yum list knod-nvidia* will list all of the kmod-nvidia that is available. I see nothing. Same with yum list akmod-nvidia*. Or maybe I'm missing a repository ...

[glennzo]

Means that they haven't been released for general usage yet. The developers are still looking at them to see if the drivers are viable for Fedora 12.

[Hobashira]

Here is why?

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...ghlight=nvidia

[gastonv]

Hello,
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing were set as enabled=0
So, I have changed it to enabled=1
And then in yum update I can see the new kmod-nvidia-173xx drivers.

But, I think, I have to wait for a new kernel update:

[root@d51520994 gastonv]# yum update 
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: InstallMedia. Please verify its path and try again
[root@d51520994 gastonv]# sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/Fedora-install-media.repo
[root@d51520994 gastonv]# yum update 
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia-173xx.i686 0:173.14.22-1.fc12.1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686 >= 173.14.22-1.fc12.1 for package: kmod-nvidia-173xx-173.14.22-1.fc12.1.i686
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx.i686 0:173.14.22-1.fc12 set to be updated
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.i686 0:173.14.22-1.fc12 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686.i686 0:173.14.22-1.fc12.1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686 for package: kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686-173.14.22-1.fc12.1.i686
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686-173.14.22-1.fc12.1.i686 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686 is needed by package kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686-173.14.22-1.fc12.1.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing)
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686 is needed by package kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.31.6-134.fc12.i686-173.14.22-1.fc12.1.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root@d51520994 gastonv]# uname -a
Linux d51520994.access.telenet.be 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:41:45 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@d51520994 gastonv]# yum list installed | grep kernel
abrt-addon-kerneloops.i686
abrt-plugin-kerneloopsreporter.i686
kernel.i686         2.6.31.5-127.fc12
kernel-firmware.noarch
kernel-headers.i686 2.6.31.5-127.fc12

[glennzo]

Just an FYI. You shouldn't leave the updates-testing repo at enabled=1 as you could potentially run into problems since you, and I, would likely forget that the repo is enabled. Set it back to enabled=0 and enable it at the command line, like so,

sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing check-update

[gastonv]

Thank you very much for the replies.
I understand that the testing repos may only used for testing purposes.
And with yum --enablerepo=...... check-update I can see which which packages are in testing stage.
So, I have to be a little bit patient until both, the new kernel, and the appropriate kmod-nvidia-173xx are available.
Greetings,
Gaston Verhulst.

With the upgrade to FC12, there is a little problem with the audio, but that is another question.

[Hobashira]

Originally Posted by glennzo

Just an FYI. You shouldn't leave the updates-testing repo at enabled=1 as you could potentially run into problems since you, and I, would likely forget that the repo is enabled. Set it back to enabled=0 and enable it at the command line, like so,

sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing check-update

Good point!