Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > This is how mine now looks > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modset=0 > vga=0x317 3" > You grub command line looks *very* short (and fishy!). Lack of LVM maybe? E.g. Mine, on multiple machines looks something lik

[Solved]Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-06 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 06/05/2012 02:52 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 06/05/2012 07:46 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: $ /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau nouveau 785681 1 nxm_wmi 12823 1 nouveau wmi 18697 2 mxm_wmi, nouveau video18980 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 40

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-05 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 06/05/2012 02:52 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 06/05/2012 07:46 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: $ /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau nouveau 785681 1 nxm_wmi 12823 1 nouveau wmi 18697 2 mxm_wmi, nouveau video18980 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 4

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > On 06/05/2012 07:46 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> $ /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau > > nouveau 785681 1 > nxm_wmi  12823 1 nouveau > wmi      18697 2 mxm_wmi, nouveau > video    18980 1 nouveau > drm_kms_helper 40409 1 nouveau > ttm 79709 1 nouve

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 06/05/2012 07:46 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Done exactly that. I did not add vga=0x317 as my monitor is 1900x1080 I rebuilt the grub configuration as you suggested. Note: I am multi-booting with Ubuntu so that I do have a system workin

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Done exactly that. I did not add vga=0x317 as my monitor is 1900x1080 > > I rebuilt the grub configuration as you suggested. > Note:  I am multi-booting with Ubuntu so that I do have a system working > unless I fix Fedora issue. I did not i

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> akmods run *every* boot as a service. > > AFAIK, all it does if the module is already there is detect it.  I > didn't think it rebuilt on every boot--only if the module is missing. Bad word selection on my part. It runs on every boot, it

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 06/04/2012 07:15 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: With that said, a couple of questions: 0. Please post your hardware configuration. GPU: GeForce GTX 275 Intel i5 8GB RAM I've got a two machines using GTX 2xx cards. HW should be safe, I reck

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 13:15 -0400, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya > wrote: > >> 4. Why are you using akmods-nvidia instead of kmod-nvidia? Any > >> particular reason for "build" the RPMs locally? > > > > http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/315/what-is-t

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: >> With that said, a couple of questions: >> 0. Please post your hardware configuration. > > GPU: GeForce GTX 275 > Intel i5 > 8GB RAM I've got a two machines using GTX 2xx cards. HW should be safe, I reckon. >> 2. Have you followed the nVi

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
I'll start by saying that I'm running F17 on large number of (vastly different) machines, of that, 2 are using nouveau and 4 are using the nVidia binary drivers. (I usually use the binary drivers only if I require high-performance OpenGL) The reason I mention it, is that it's unlikely that I mi

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Hi, > > I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the reason > I could not use it. I installed 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' from Yumex and > when rebooted the screen was stuck at > > em1: link becomes ready > > I lo

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Neal Becker
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Hi, > > I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the > reason I could not use it. I installed 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' > from Yumex and when rebooted the screen was stuck at / > > em1: link becomes ready/ > > I logged into tty3 and then re

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Hi, > > I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the reason > I could not use it. I installed 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' from Yumex and > when rebooted the screen was stuck at [snip] > > and now system is booting

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 06/04/2012 01:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 04.06.2012 13:36, schrieb Swapnil Bhartiya: I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the reason I could not use it. I installed 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' from Yumex and when rebooted the screen was stuck at / em1: li

Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.06.2012 13:36, schrieb Swapnil Bhartiya: > I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the reason > I could not use it. I installed > 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' from Yumex and when rebooted the screen was > stuck at / > > em1: link becomes ready/ > > I logged into

Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-04 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Hi, I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the reason I could not use it. I installed 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' from Yumex and when rebooted the screen was stuck at / em1: link becomes ready/ I logged into tty3 and then removed akmod nvidia [root@localhost ~]#