Re: Video is slow

2013-08-26 Thread poma
On 26.08.2013 11:01, Harald Hoyer wrote: > /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img is the default value of the first argument and > can be omitted. > $(uname -r) is the default value of the second argument and can be omitted. > > So, this results in > > # dracut > True. :) > $(uname -r) is the defaul

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-26 Thread Roger
On 26/08/13 19:01, Harald Hoyer wrote: On 08/26/2013 09:20 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:12:34 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/25/2013 09:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: While I respect Joe Zeff as a reputable member of this list, those instructions on fedoraforum are a total pi

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 08/26/2013 09:20 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:12:34 -0700 > Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/25/2013 09:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> While I respect Joe Zeff as a reputable member of this list, those >>> instructions on fedoraforum are a total piece of crap. I don't know >>>

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/26/2013 12:20 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: * Any of the remaining stuff about PAE kernels, selinux policies, grub tweaking and manually blacklisting nouveau should be frown upon. Not only that those things are not necessary for the installation of the driver, but moreover they can be

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-26 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:12:34 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/25/2013 09:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > While I respect Joe Zeff as a reputable member of this list, those > > instructions on fedoraforum are a total piece of crap. I don't know > > who wrote those instructions, but overengineering a

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2013 09:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: While I respect Joe Zeff as a reputable member of this list, those instructions on fedoraforum are a total piece of crap. I don't know who wrote those instructions, but overengineering a solution for a common problem is a always a Recipe For Disaster

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Roger
Now nobody knows what you did, in how many ways were those instructions broken, and how much time and effort will it take to fix that mess... :-( I do, now! Went back thru history and found that I did not correctly complete a line from that fedoraforum instruction set: dracut /boot/initra

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:34:56 +1000 Roger wrote: > Installing nvidia drivers is as simple as I have told you --- enable > rpmfusion, yum install kmod-nvidia, reboot the machine. > rpmfusion was enabled and working > yum install kmod-nvidia did it's thing successfully > > --- Except it did not wo

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Roger
Installing nvidia drivers is as simple as I have told you --- enable rpmfusion, yum install kmod-nvidia, reboot the machine. rpmfusion was enabled and working yum install kmod-nvidia did it's thing successfully --- Except it did not work, wouldn't go past that error message previously mentione

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:22:57 +1000 Roger wrote: > I followed the instructions in : > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 > but must have missed something because Fedora 19 is now trash. > Will not even start to boot so I can't get to a terminal. While I respect Joe Zeff as a re

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:19:35 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Give it 10-15 minutes, the initrd is a large file. ;-) You will need > to wait for it only on this first boot --- once it is updated, > subsequent boots should be as fast as they used to be. By the way... I always found it quite anno

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2013 08:19 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: This is good advice if you are fanatically waiting for the new kernel to appear and install it within the first 5 minutes after hitting the repositories... In that case it is unlikely that the corresponding kmod-nvidia will be available, and akmod ca

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Roger
On 26/08/13 10:09, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/25/2013 04:48 PM, Roger wrote: Took the plunge and following the above installed kmod-nvidia now Fedora boot hangs at Started Accounts Service I also note that it fails to start ISDN service? Pretty much dead and can't access anything. Help is greatly ap

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 17:09:39 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/25/2013 04:48 PM, Roger wrote: > > Took the plunge and following the above installed kmod-nvidia now > > Fedora boot hangs at Started Accounts Service > > I also note that it fails to start ISDN service? > > Pretty much dead and can't acc

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2013 04:48 PM, Roger wrote: Took the plunge and following the above installed kmod-nvidia now Fedora boot hangs at Started Accounts Service I also note that it fails to start ISDN service? Pretty much dead and can't access anything. Help is greatly appreciated thanks. Writing this from

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Roger
On 25/08/13 21:32, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:57:03 +1000 Roger wrote: I'm using Fedora 19 with the standard Nouveau video driver. I've noticed that when re positioning gui windows with mouse, movement is increasingly glunky, jerking in 5-10mm steps in any direction. When dra

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:57:03 +1000 Roger wrote: > I'm using Fedora 19 with the standard Nouveau video driver. > I've noticed that when re positioning gui windows with mouse, > movement is increasingly glunky, jerking in 5-10mm steps in any > direction. When dragging a border of a gui window the mo

Re: Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread g
On 08/25/2013 05:57 AM, Roger wrote: I'm using Fedora 19 with the standard Nouveau video driver. I've noticed that when re positioning gui windows with mouse, movement is increasingly glunky, <> I swapped over to Ubuntu 13.04 which uses the Nvidia driver and there is no problem at all with m

Video is slow

2013-08-25 Thread Roger
I'm using Fedora 19 with the standard Nouveau video driver. I've noticed that when re positioning gui windows with mouse, movement is increasingly glunky, jerking in 5-10mm steps in any direction. When dragging a border of a gui window the mouse moves to almost 100 mm before edge of the window