On 10/26/12 10:44, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > On 10/26/2012 06:21 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >> On 10/25/12 23:42, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: >>> While waiting for a more functional Anaconda I have been >>> running 64 bit F18 with yum updates. >>> >>> The Noveau driver still crashes. Fortunately Nvidia still installs. >>> >>> I am able to run SCO Openserver 5.0.7 under the virtual machine. >>> Select i686, pcnet, and 4.4bsd. >>> >>> Audacity puts its data in the root segment by default. This eventually >>> overflows the small root FS generated by Anaconda. >>> >>> >>> >> Hmm, I wonder if they've made changes in upstream nouveau. I'm running rawhide and have not experienced any crashes of nouveau >> (although I have other issues with nouveau, just not crashing) and *can't* get the nvidia driver to install (either from rpmfusion >> or from nvidia directly; it doesn't build from the akmod, there is no kmod package for my kernel, and the nvidia .run file won't >> build (I've sent a request to nvidia for help after doing some debugging)). It appears that the nvidia builder script doesn't take >> into account include files that have been moved to uapi and/or generated/uapi (why must something that's working be messed with all >> of the time?). >> >> Kevin > I am using NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.60.run > > 1. Change "rhgb quiet" to "nomodeset" in the active grub.cfg entry > 2. Reboot > 3. init 3 > 4. sh NV* > > As I keyboard this, I am running Xfce with composting on. > Random screensavers are enabled. WSPR is running with > one sound card and a real serial port. Lady Heather is > running under Wine using a USB serial port to talk to > a Trimble Thunderbolt. Ham Radio Deluxe's rotator control > under Wine interrogates a rotator 1/sec using the other > USB serial port. Audacity has been recording sound > using the motherboard sound device for 21 hours. > I have also been playing with SCO Openserver 5.0.7 under > the virtual machine manager. Also have been using > VNC, Firefox to talk to the world. The system has not crashed > using the Nvidia driver. Knock on wood. > > Which kernel are you running? I can't get 304.60 to build on 3.7.0-0.rc2.git1.2.fc19.x86_64 (rawhide). It can't figure out the kernel version so it won't even try to build. Kevin -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
