Hi

I am using Fedora 10 64bit. 2 days back i updated my machine using YUM, the update installed were the nVidia driver v180, after which i restarted my machine and i am not able to start my x server or no GUI.

The next day i logged in to init3 and tried using Yum update, the yum is failing because of dependency of kernel.

One more thing which i notice is that the yum says that the downloaded respond.xml is older than that i have in my machine .

I don't have display now , is there any work around ? or do i need a fresh re installtion of fedora ....?

Thanks
Peeths

One way you might be able to solve your problem is to manually compile a Nvidia driver against your current, running kernel.

This is actually a very common problem that people run into when using yum to "update" their systems (also, it is the number one reason why I NEVER use yum).

The reason why your XWindows is not starting most likely is due to this - i. e. the Nvidia driver was compiled for a certain kernel version and kernel settings "mix", but you have changed this by updating your kernel so the Nvidia driver can no longer be loaded into that kernel. There is a driver / kernel mismatch prohibiting the Nvidia kernel module to load so it can be used by the Xserver to drive your video hardware.

Alternatively, if compiling a new Nvidia driver against the new version of your kernel is too much, you can edit your xorg.conf file to use the generic "nv" driver instead of the "nvidia" driver. Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then, at least, you might be able to get your desktop back, but everything might be much slower since the driver won't be using any accelerated features.

Assuming you have a default install; you can just reboot and select the old kernel. You can do this until the kmod (assuming that is what you are using) is built for your new kernel (usually just a couple of days lag). If you built the driver yourself, you will have to rebuild it each time you update the kernel.

I tried with the old kernel as well , but the result is the same i dont have x-server, i am planning for a complete re installation of my PC. Let me see if that helps ....

install the kmod-nvidia package (RPM Fusion Non-Free) and it should prevent the kernel from being updated if there's no related nvidia updates. that's been my experience anyway. In any case, simply re-installing the nvidia drivers usually fixes things for me.

there was an nVidia update but since the kernel dependency is failing and the yum fails.

but its ok , the new kernel is released and i did an update and my machine is up running now .

It similar situation , where can i get the previous nVidia driver to get my old kernel working ?

Thanks
Peeths

If you have all the required packages (such as kernel-devel and gcc) the nvidia driver has the ability to recompile itself and install for the current kernel.