On 10/26/12 11:25, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > On 10/26/2012 09:22 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >> 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 > uname -a > Linux omen3.omen.com 3.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 23 14:55:06 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > [caf@omen3 X11]$ ll N* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64146553 Oct 25 03:47 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.60.run > > Yum update is current. > I think between 3.6 and 3.7 there was a change of where some of the kernel source include files are held (from /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include to /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include/uapi and /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include/generated/uapi) that is screwing up building of the nvidia drivers (for example, in 3.7, the version.h file found under include/linux is empty and has been moved to include//generated/uapi/linux but the nvidia-installer sript run by the .run script doesn't find that version (either at all or early enough to be able to use it). Kevin -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
