Re: More experiences with F18
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 -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: More experiences with F18
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. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430 -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: More experiences with F18
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@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: More experiences with F18
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. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430 -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: More experiences with F18
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:22:32 -0500 Kevin Martin ktm...@gmail.com wrote: 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 Chuck is running F18, may be what's different. -- Regards, Frank -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: More experiences with F18
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@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
More experiences with F18
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. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430 -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
