Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-02 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 02.07.2016 um 00:09 schrieb Tom Horsley: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 14:56:47 -0600 Robin Laing wrote: Until you install a 4.6 kernel, of course, then the nvidia driver won't compile because the helpful linux kernel devs have been changing the internal kernel interfaces again :-). (I'm booted back o

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-01 Thread Stephen Morris
On 01/07/16 07:29, Stephen Morris wrote: On 30/06/16 07:19, Tom Horsley wrote: I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after about a week, this happened: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286 Total screen freeze :-(.

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 14:56:47 -0600 Robin Laing wrote: > > Until you install a 4.6 kernel, of course, then the nvidia driver won't > > compile because the helpful linux kernel devs have been changing the > > internal kernel interfaces again :-). > > > > (I'm booted back on the 4.5 kernel now). > > -

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-01 Thread Robin Laing
On 01/07/16 05:46, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:40:50 +0200 Matthew Colton wrote: Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to supply kmods will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories keeping in sync with released kernels.

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/01/16 19:46, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:40:50 +0200 > Matthew Colton wrote: > >>> Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to >>> supply kmods >>> will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories >>> keeping in sync >>>

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-01 Thread Matthew Colton
Am 01.07.2016 um 13:46 schrieb Tom Horsley: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:40:50 +0200 > Matthew Colton wrote: > >>> Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to >>> supply kmods >>> will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories >>> keeping in sync

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-01 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:40:50 +0200 Matthew Colton wrote: > > Additionally, using the akmod-nvidia as opposed to relying on rpmfusion to > > supply kmods > > will free you from having to wait or worry about rpmfusion repositories > > keeping in sync > > with released kernels. > > Yes, works lik

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-07-01 Thread Matthew Colton
Am 30.06.2016 um 23:50 schrieb Ed Greshko: > > On 07/01/16 05:29, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 30/06/16 07:19, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked >>> on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after >>> about a week, this happened: >>> >>> https://bugzi

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/01/16 05:29, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 30/06/16 07:19, Tom Horsley wrote: >> I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked >> on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after >> about a week, this happened: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286 >> >> Total

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-30 Thread Stephen Morris
On 30/06/16 07:19, Tom Horsley wrote: I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after about a week, this happened: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286 Total screen freeze :-(. At least it took as long as a week. If it

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-30 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/29/2016 05:31 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after about a week, this happened: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286 Total screen freeze :-(. At least it took as long as a

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-30 Thread Doug
On 06/30/2016 12:10 PM, stan wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:54:45 -0400 "Eddie O'Connor" wrote: Is this something that's going to affect my EXTREMELY OLD Gateway T6321 laptop? Unlikely if you aren't having issues already. Nouveau has been having lockup issues for a long time. The nouveau bu

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-30 Thread stan
On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:54:45 -0400 "Eddie O'Connor" wrote: > Is this something that's going to affect my EXTREMELY OLD Gateway > T6321 laptop? Unlikely if you aren't having issues already. Nouveau has been having lockup issues for a long time. The nouveau bug report about lockups seems to sugg

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-30 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Is this something that's going to affect my EXTREMELY OLD Gateway T6321 laptop?I was under the impression that "Wayland" was going to solve the issues with drivers that didn't quite work? (I was thinking of upgrading my hardware to a Lenovo IdeaPad...but if there might be funky things happening

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-29 Thread alan
> I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked > on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after > about a week, this happened: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286 > > Total screen freeze :-(. > > At least it took as long as a week. > > If it happens a lot, I may