On 02/27/2014 03:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/27/2014 01:15 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: >> On 02/27/2014 02:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 02/27/2014 11:32 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >>>> I find that I can't run with acceleration turned on with the nouveau driver at all and I've been loathe to try the nVidia driver >>>> again since I update the kernel fairly often using rawhide and rpmfusion doesn't tend to keep up. >>> >>> Just install akmod-nvidia and it will build a new kmod as needed. >> Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. It's not true when kernel versions change (say from 3.12 to 3.13) and either nVidia >> hasn't updated their code to compile for it or rpmfusion hasn't loaded the latest nVidia drivers. Then I'm stuck having to go back >> to nouveau, blah blah blah...It becomes quite a hassle..Sigh...guess that's what's meant by bleeding edge! >> > > I have both kmod and akmod installed. That way, if the new kernel and the kmod come out together, it's taken care of by the > update. If not, it's taken care of as soon as I boot into the new kernel. So far, I've never had this combo fail, and I've been > doing it for several years. So I gave your suggestion a try last night and no joy. Installed kmod and akmods for nvidia, it pulled in the requisite x nvidia packages, and it just wouldn't run at all. When I looked to see what was up I realized that the nvidia module hadn't loaded...strange, thought I! So I tried to manually load it with modprobe and received the error "Error: could not insert 'nvidia' :Exec format error". Bummer. So then I downloaded the nvidia package from nvidia directly and, no joy, won't compile (I did do a little looking around and saw some information about patches that needed to be applied to get nvidia to build on 3.13+ kernels and tried those patches but the build failed in other places). So I had to fall back to nouveau. Bleah! Ah well, at least I've got a functioning (albeit not accelerated) system! I'm running latest updated rawhide (3.14.0-0.rc4.git0.1). Kevin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
