Zx X Xx On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, 6:39 PM Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 12:56 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > > […] > > > > As a general rule of thumb anything proprietary binary only will be > > painful in rawhide. Anything can change through out the dev cycle and > > you have to wait for the vendor to catch up. Recently Xorg was bumped > > to the latest release requiring a rebuild for the new ABI. You can > > either use nouveau and have the latest and greatest or retrieve the > > last Xorg server build from koji that supported the ABI required by > > the proprietary driver and downgrade to that that exclude the > > affected > > packages from being upgraded. > > Indeed, I expect nothing but pain with Rawhide :-) > > As it happens, yesterday NVIDIA released 358.16 which explicitly fixes > the Xorg ABI 20 issue. Moreover, it compiles and appears to work fine > (*) on kernel 4.3. However on kernel 4.4-RC there appear to be > problems: I tend to find this has always been the case – no matter > using the special no debug kernels, only the formal release kernels > have ever really worked. So nothing new there. > > (*) For some definition of the word fine. Sadly I am getting kernel > problems with the Fedora 4.3 kernel + 358.16 which are not happening > with the Debian 4.2 kernel with 358.16. I will assume NVIDIA haven't > quite got the Xorg ABI 20 stuff sorted properly as yet. > > Sadly nouveau really doesn't do a good enough job for the GNOME Shell, > etc. behaviour that I want to work with. But that is my problem. > > > > I am not using the Fedora packaged NVIDIA driver so I have no idea > > > if > > > that works. Nor am I using the Nouveau driver as it stops various > > > features of the GNOME UI that I rely on for sanity. > > > > Fedora doesn't package the NVIDIA driver, I presume you're referring > > to the rpmfusion.org one. > > Yes indeed. And it isn't really up to scratch. And with the Debian > support for the NVIDIA driver being such an outright mess, downloading > the NVIDIA release is always the best strategy. > > It is worth adding that Rawhide seems to work perfectly well (bar the > occasional glitch) on my Lenovo X series laptops, so I tend to run Sid > on the workstation and Rawhide on the laptops. > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
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