On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Devin Bougie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> You need to update module-init-tools to the current version which has
> the bug fixed. Either that or install the one provided by ELRepo.
> yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo elrepo update module-init-tools
> kmod-nvidia
>
> Thanks.  Once this replaced the module-init-tools from SL 5 base with
> module-init-tools from ELRepo (both 3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5), I was able to
> install nvidia-drv-x11 and kmod-nvidia from ELrepo.  With this
> configuration, ViEVO works correctly.
> I am a little hesitant to push module-init-tools from ELRepo to all of our
> SL5 systems.  Is there any chance of incorporating the patched version of
> module-init-tools (or an nvidia driver that provides OpenGL 1.5+) into SL5?
> Thanks again,
> Devin

As noted above, all you have to do is to update your module-init-tools
from the SL update repository. My system has:

$ rpm -qi module-init-tools
Name        : module-init-tools            Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 3.3                               Vendor: Scientific Linux
Release     : 0.pre3.1.60.el5_5.1           Build Date: Mon 11 Oct
2010 03:38:54 AM PDT
Install Date: Wed 13 Oct 2010 04:33:30 AM PDT      Build Host: norob.fnal.gov
Group       : System Environment/Kernel     Source RPM:
module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5_5.1.src.rpm
Size        : 902493                           License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 12 Oct 2010 11:58:12 AM PDT, Key ID b0b4183f192a7d7d
Summary     : Kernel module management utilities.

That is the current version which has the fix.

Akemi