[mythtv-users] Problem with nVidia drivers on 0.21 upgrade

[mythtv at blandford.net]

Harry Devine wrote:
> I just re-installed my Myth box with Fedora 8 x86_64, and I rebuilt it 
> as a clean, fresh re-install.  I want to get everything working outside 
> of Myth first (sound, video, networking, etc.) as much as possible 
> before installing Myth 0.21 on it.  Well, I'm having trouble with the 
> nVidia drivers that I got from ATRPMS.net.
> 
> I did a yum install nvidia-graphics169.12-kmdl-$KVER and it pulled down 
> the 169.12 drivers for my kernel (2.6.24.3-34.fc8).  I have my xorg.conf 
> file loading the nvidia driver as per the NVidia section of the Wiki ( 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora_7).  
> However, when I try to start the X-Server, I get the following in my 
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:  (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module 
> does not exist, 0).
> 
> What am I missing here?  I thought that the drivers would have been 
> installed in the proper locations via the yum command above.  I'm sure 
> I'm just being stupid here. :-)  I did search Gossamer Threads, but with 
> 715 pages of hits for "nvidia", I thought this would be easier. 

Did you install the nvidia-graphics169.12 and nvidia-graphics169.12-libs 
packages as well?

ichael