X will not boot after F10 update

[zak_neutron]

Hi

I have successfully upgrade from F9 to F10 using the DVD - I thought all was well - until F10 updated itself through yum last nite for the 1st time (it was approx 280mb download) - now I cannot get into X.

My error messages are almost identical (in terms of X error messages) to this now closed thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204443

However the yum installed suggested solution at the end of the above thread fails for me:

sudo yum install akmod-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for livna
No Presto metadata available for fedora
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-free-updates
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-free
No Presto metadata available for adobe-linux-i386
No Presto metadata available for updates
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-nonfree
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx.i386 0:173.14.15-2.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package akmod-nvidia-173xx.i686 0:173.14.15-1.fc10.4 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: akmods for package: akmod-nvidia-173xx
--> Processing Dependency: kmodtool for package: akmod-nvidia-173xx
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.i386 0:173.14.15-2.fc10 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package akmods.noarch 0:0.3.3-2.fc10 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: rpm-build for package: akmods
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/rpmdev-vercmp for package: akmods
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-devel for package: akmods
---> Package kmodtool.noarch 0:1-13.fc10 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.27.5-117.fc10 set to be installed
---> Package rpmdevtools.noarch 0:6.7-1.fc9 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: redhat-rpm-config for package: rpmdevtools
--> Processing Dependency: fakeroot for package: rpmdevtools
--> Processing Dependency: gcc-c++ for package: rpmdevtools
---> Package rpm-build.i386 0:4.6.0-0.rc1.7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: elfutils >= 0.128 for package: rpm-build
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fakeroot.i386 0:1.9.7-18.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package elfutils.i386 0:0.137-3.fc10 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: elfutils-libs-i386 = 0.137-3.fc10 for package: elfutils
--> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1(ELFUTILS_0.122) for package: elfutils
--> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1(ELFUTILS_0.130) for package: elfutils
--> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1 for package: elfutils
--> Processing Dependency: libasm.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.0) for package: elfutils
--> Processing Dependency: libasm.so.1 for package: elfutils
--> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1(ELFUTILS_0.127) for package: elfutils
--> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1(ELFUTILS_0.126) for package: elfutils
---> Package redhat-rpm-config.noarch 0:9.0.3-3.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package gcc-c++.i386 0:4.3.2-7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++-devel = 4.3.2-7 for package: gcc-c++
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libstdc++-devel.i386 0:4.3.2-7 set to be updated
---> Package elfutils-libs.i386 0:0.137-3.fc10 set to be updated
--> Processing Conflict: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia conflicts xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx
--> Processing Conflict: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx conflicts xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
--> Processing Conflict: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx conflicts xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-newest
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
  --> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-173.14.15-2.fc10.i386 from rpmfusion-nonfree has depsolving problems
  --> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
Error: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx
Error: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-nvidia

My graphics card is:

Slot:   02:02.0
Class:  VGA compatible controller
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Device: NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]
Rev:    a1

My Installs are:

rpm -qa|grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.6.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686-173.14.12-6.fc9.2.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.5.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.i386
kmod-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-177.82-1.fc10.i386
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686

Thanks

[zak_neutron]

Apologies

I posted the wrong graphics card details - here is the correct one:

Slot:   01:00.0
Class:  VGA compatible controller
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Device: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
SVendor:        nVidia Corporation
SDevice:        Device 01b9
Rev:    a1

[glennzo]

That card should work with any of the drivers, vesa, nv and nvidia.

[zak_neutron]

That card should work with any of the drivers, vesa, nv and nvidia.

So what's wrong with my xorg.conf?

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"

	#Screen      1  "Screen1"
	#Option	    "Clone" "off"
	Identifier     "Multihead layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "true"
	#Option	    "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

	#ModelName    "Monitor 1024x768"
	#HorizSync    30.0 - 110.0
	#VertRefresh  50.0 - 150.0
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
	Option	    "TripleBuffer" "true"
	Option	    "RenderAccel" "true"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	Option	    "RenderAccel" "True"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[zak_neutron]

Sorted it - being a bit of a twit. The mistake was fairly obvious. Particularly once I doubled checked:

sudo rpm -qa --last|grep kmod*

I found the date order showed that the following were upgraded through yum

kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.6.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686-173.14.12-6.fc9.2.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.5.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.i386
kmod-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-177.82-1.fc10.i386
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686

Obviously my yum install

sudo yum install akmod-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs

was a downgrade!

I then removed 177.82 versions of the driver and re-tried the above - all worked fine.

After all I should have read in a bit more detail the orginal xorg error log:

(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 173.14.xx Legacy drivers.
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     more information.  The 177.82 NVIDIA driver will ignore
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     this GPU.  Continuing probe...
(EE) No devices detected.

D'oh.

Please marked this self-inflicted and self-fixed thread as solved