On 22.12.2014 17:52, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Am 22.12.2014 um 00:11 schrieb poma: >> On 21.12.2014 19:45, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: >>> Am 21.12.2014 um 18:34 schrieb Heinz Diehl: >>>> On 21.12.2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: >>>> >>>>> I first tried the latest and greatest nouveau driver from >>>>> freedesktop.org "as is", but the fan problem remains, so I >>>>> still have to apply "my" patch to the nouveau source.. >>>> >>>> I think you should file a bug against the nouveau driver on >>>> bugs.freedesktop.org (xorg -> driver -> nouveau). >>> >>> Yes, I'll do so when I have figured out how to apply the patch to >>> the nouveau driver from freedesktop.org. The patch is *againsts the >>> kernel source*, like: --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/... +++ >>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/... but the structure of the driver >>> from git is: nouveau/drm/core/... (sorry for being so clueless, but >>> I never dealt with kernel modules ...) >>> >> >> Check rhbz #1121331, recent comments. > > Thank you for your detailed instructions on bugzilla, they were easy to > follow - but on reboot, the gpu fan began to roar like before, although > no errors occurred during the process of building and installing the > nouveau module: > > 1. The nouveau source from git got patched by your patchfile in exactly > the same way as the kernel source tree got patched by "my" patchfile. > The four respective files were identical. > > 2. The make process of the nouveau module finished without error, I > copied nouveau.ko to > /lib/modules/3.17.6-300.fc21.x86_64/updates/ > > 3. After depmod, modinfo -n showed the appropriate location of the module: > /lib/modules/3.17.6-300.fc21.x86_64/updates/nouveau.ko > > So I really can't figure out what happened, I repeated the process of > rebuilding the complete kernel tree and got a quiet fan again ... > - Create a custom dracut config /etc/dracut.conf.d/exclude-nouveau-in-the-initramfs.conf # PUT YOUR CONFIG IN files named *.conf in /etc/dracut.conf.d/ # /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf will override the settings in /etc/dracut.conf # SEE man dracut.conf(5) # # kernel modules to omit # Specify a space-separated list of kernel modules not to add to the initramfs. # The kernel modules have to be specified without the ".ko" suffix. # omit_drivers+=" nouveau " - Only this time, for the current kernel # dracut -f --kver $(uname -r) - nouveau.ko doesn't fall anymore into the init image # lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img | grep nouveau ; echo $? 1 Therefore, you no longer need to re/generate an initramfs after building and installing patched nouveau. -- 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
