Hello,
Rawhide? As far as I know I have F20 installed. Perhaps something went
wrong when I upgraded from F19 to F20?
Best,
Oliver
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote:
> 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 <ktm...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:ktm...@gmail.com>> 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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