Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Joe Zeff : Oh, Ok.. Gotcha. :) I assume there's a FAQ somewhere on how to do this, or do you just "sudo yum install nvidia*.rpm" or something like that and it'll say "oh, you need kmod-nvidia" and add that to the install? :) http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 Thanks.

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Joe Zeff : On 02/21/2014 05:47 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Yes, but you'll only do it once. If you use the package from the OE

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/21/2014 06:14 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : On 02/21/14 21:47, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Sure But using the rp

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/21/2014 05:47 AM, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Yes, but you'll only do it once. If you use the package from the OEM, you'll have to do

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Ed Greshko : On 02/21/14 21:47, John Aldrich wrote: Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Sure But using the rpmfusion stuff means you don't have to manu

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/14 21:47, John Aldrich wrote: > Quoting Ed Greshko : >> >> Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier >> > Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? Sure But using the rpmfusion stuff means you don't have to manually blacklist the

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Ed Greshko : Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion. Your life will be easier Yeah, but don't I have to add the kmod-nvidia and other stuff? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/14 21:16, John Aldrich wrote: > Quoting Rick Stevens : >> >> I've hit a similar thing on a homebrewed Athlon machine as well. The >> nouveau driver didn't like the nVidia video card and it would hard lock >> periodically. The machine is powered down right now, so I can't tell >> you which

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rick Stevens : I've hit a similar thing on a homebrewed Athlon machine as well. The nouveau driver didn't like the nVidia video card and it would hard lock periodically. The machine is powered down right now, so I can't tell you which nVidia it has, however switching to the nVidia binary

Re: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/20/2014 03:42 AM, John Aldrich issued this missive: Hello, all... I'm running Fedora 20 on a homebrew PC It's an AMD Athlon X2 processor with an on-board nVidia display chipset. This is a fresh install of F20, pretty much up to date. I had to do a fresh install since I mangled the upgrade f

RE: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-20 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting bc98kinney : Lockups can come from bad memory, so I would recommend you run memtest86 before anything else. Sometimes you have to let it go for a couple days before it finds anything.  A non destructive drive test like DFT wouldn't be a bad idea either.  Thanks. Asked on a loc

RE: HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-20 Thread bc98kinney
ginal message From: John Aldrich Date:02/20/2014 05:42 (GMT-06:00) To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: HELP! System keeps locking up Hello, all... I'm running Fedora 20 on a homebrew PC It's an AMD Athlon X2 processor with an on-board nVidia display chipset. This is a f

HELP! System keeps locking up

2014-02-20 Thread John Aldrich
Hello, all... I'm running Fedora 20 on a homebrew PC It's an AMD Athlon X2 processor with an on-board nVidia display chipset. This is a fresh install of F20, pretty much up to date. I had to do a fresh install since I mangled the upgrade from F18. Every once in awhile, mainly when I'm trying to