Re: weekly patches crippled my display. [SOLVED]

2023-11-24 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 8:00 PM, home user wrote: I would like to run a memory test.  Does what Fedora offers now work?  I recall from a previous thread that it does not.  If it does, please remind me how to install it. It's memtest86+. It's on my work station, accessed during boot-up via the grub menu.

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 8:20 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 15:44 -0700, home user wrote: I have no idea how to remove the strange character sequences from the output, so here it is raw: -- 352:[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Stopped ^[[0;1;39mkmod-static-nodes.…reate List of Static Device Nodes

Re: weekly patches crippled my display. [SOLVED]

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 8:52 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 19:00, home user wrote: I'm as much at a loss as you as to what really happened in the mid-day dnf commands.  I'm also at a loss as to why the clean-up this evening had so many failures. It kind of sounds like the earlier upgrade failed som

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/23/23 19:00, home user wrote: I'm as much at a loss as you as to what really happened in the mid-day dnf commands.  I'm also at a loss as to why the clean-up this evening had so many failures. It kind of sounds like the earlier upgrade failed somehow. You could check the logs from that

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 15:44 -0700, home user wrote: > I have no idea how to remove the strange character sequences from the output, > so here it is raw: > -- > 352:[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Stopped ^[[0;1;39mkmod-static-nodes.…reate List of > Static Device Nodes. > 364:[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Creat

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 5:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 16:07, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 5:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 16:00, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 4:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 15:39, home user wrote: Where is the "6.5.12" kernel coming from, since you don't act

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/23/23 16:07, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 5:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 16:00, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 4:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 15:39, home user wrote: Where is the "6.5.12" kernel coming from, since you don't actually have it installed?  Try dnf upgrad

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 5:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 16:00, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 4:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 15:39, home user wrote: Where is the "6.5.12" kernel coming from, since you don't actually have it installed?  Try dnf upgrading your kernel. -- -- -bash.12[

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/23/23 16:00, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 4:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 15:39, home user wrote: Where is the "6.5.12" kernel coming from, since you don't actually have it installed?  Try dnf upgrading your kernel. -- -- -bash.12[~]: uname -a Linux coyote 6.5.12-200.fc3

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 4:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 15:39, home user wrote: Where is the "6.5.12" kernel coming from, since you don't actually have it installed?  Try dnf upgrading your kernel. -- -- -bash.12[~]: uname -a Linux coyote 6.5.12-200.fc38.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon No

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/23/23 15:39, home user wrote: -bash.8[~]: /usr/sbin/akmods --force Checking kmods exist for 6.5.12-200.fc38.x86_64    [  OK  ] Building and installing nvidia-470xx-kmod  [FAILED] Building rpms failed; see /var/cache/akmods/nvidia-470xx/470.223.02-1-for-6.5.12-200.fc

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
(responding to both Barry and Samuel... On 11/23/23 4:26 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 15:17, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 3:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I think it will compile against any kernels that need it.  Which kernel are you running and which one do you need? I'm wanting to use th

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/23/23 15:17, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 3:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I think it will compile against any kernels that need it.  Which kernel are you running and which one do you need? I'm wanting to use the kernel installed by today's patches: "6.5.12-200.fc38.x86_64". The kernel befo

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Barry
> On 23 Nov 2023, at 23:19, home user wrote: > > If I do the "/usr/sbin/akmods --force" suggested by "akmods", will that mess > up future handling of kernel and nvidia-470xx by "dnf upgrade"? I expect that you rebooted before akmod finished compiling and installing the new nvidia drivers. Do

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 3:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 23/11/2023 22:25, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:52, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:02, home user wrote: (f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short wh

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 3:25 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:52, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:02, home user wrote: (f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short while ago, I did my weekly patches.  After rebo

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 1:52 PM, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:02, home user wrote: (f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short while ago, I did my weekly patches.  After rebooting, only one monitor is displaying

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 1:43 PM, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 1:10 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/23/2023 01:02 PM, home user wrote: I'm not a sys.admin., and the display is very limited.  What's the cause of these problems, and how do I fix things? The first thing is probably to examine /var/log/boot.log t

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/11/2023 22:25, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:52, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:02, home user wrote: (f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short while ago, I did my weekly patches.  After rebo

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/23/23 12:52, home user wrote: On 11/23/23 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:02, home user wrote: (f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short while ago, I did my weekly patches.  After rebooting, only one monitor is displaying an

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/23 12:02, home user wrote: (f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short while ago, I did my weekly patches.  After rebooting, only one monitor is displaying anything, and then with a large, wide f

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
On 11/23/23 1:10 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/23/2023 01:02 PM, home user wrote: I'm not a sys.admin., and the display is very limited.  What's the cause of these problems, and how do I fix things? The first thing is probably to examine /var/log/boot.log to see if there are any clues there. --

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/23/23 12:02, home user wrote: (f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short while ago, I did my weekly patches.  After rebooting, only one monitor is displaying anything, and then with a large, wide font.  I saw no indication of trouble dur

Re: weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2023 01:02 PM, home user wrote: I'm not a sys.admin., and the display is very limited.  What's the cause of these problems, and how do I fix things? The first thing is probably to examine /var/log/boot.log to see if there are any clues there. --

weekly patches crippled my display.

2023-11-23 Thread home user
(f38; home workstation; dual monitor; using nvidia 4xx kmod and akmod from rpmfusion) A short while ago, I did my weekly patches.  After rebooting, only one monitor is displaying anything, and then with a large, wide font.  I saw no indication of trouble during the "dnf upgrade". The boot messa