On 03/14/2014 12:31 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker issued this missive:
Hello,
Problem continues. Had at least five hard freezes today. Any advice?
Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Kevin Martin <ktmdms@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ktmdms@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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).
Not to burst your bubble, but this list deals with F19 and F20, not
rawhide. For rawhide stuff, you need to start posting to the developers
list. It is entirely possible that the kernel module you have is NOT
compatible with a rawhide kernel since the rawhide kernel isn't released
yet.
Also note that you should use either kmod-nvidia or akmod-nvidia, not
both. I use kmod-nvidia for my G86 (Quadro NVS 290) Tesla card. I
specifically use the kmod-nvidia-<kernelversion> module.
As far as loading the module, you should back up your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace it with something like:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
and let X load the module when X starts up.
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