Hi All,

There seems to be a work-around to get updated Fedora Core 4
systems running suma (again).

Just to add a little info on this issue, the problem is not
in the current nVidia driver, it is in the xorg-x11 package
update that one might do after installing the new OS. So a
fresh install would work (as I saw), but it would fail after
an update.

Bob's suggestion of the problem being in libGLw is quite likely
the culprit, and the problem seems to be introduced between
verion 6.8.2-31 and 6.8.2-37 of the x11 packages, such as with
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm. That package may be OK,
but version 37 is not. I have not tried mixed the packages,
since they have interdependancies.

So, I have found success even after a full update (which is
where the ...37 packages came from), by these 3 steps (the
order may be irrelevant):

1. forcibly (--force) install the following packages:

xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-31.i386.rpm

2. forcibly (--nodeps) uninstall version 37 of them all

3. installing the current nVidia driver

Note that if you have not (yet) done an update, it might be
worth selecting those packages as ones not to be "upgraded".

I hope this helps.

- rick