On 12/19/2011 08:01 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 19 December 2011 18:32:56 Kevin Martin wrote: >>> From the driver page on the nVidia website for your laptop video card: >>> Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver >>> Version: 290.10 >> So after working on this all afternoon with Lawrence, it turned out that we >> needed to fall back to the 280.13 version of the nVidia akmod from F15 to >> get it to work. With the 290.10 and the 285.05.09 we kept seeing this in >> the Xorg.5.log file (don't know why it was creating the .5 log file but >> that's another problem for another time): >> >> [ 42.538] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration >> [ 43.913] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to get supported display device(s) >> [ 43.933] (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to query OR info 0x24 >> [ 43.935] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 2500M (G71GL) at PCI:1:0:0 >> (GPU-0) > IIRC, in one of the previous incarnations of this particular thread, someone > somewhere mentioned that this is actually a bug in the version 290 of the > nVidia drivers. I remember looking at the bugreport to nVidia (lost the link, > sorry...), and it was recognized as a bug and also closed as FIXED by nVidia. > Of course, the new version of the driver with this fix is yet to be released > by > nVidia, and in the meantime users that are being hit by this were advised to > downgrade to version 280. > > The problem was that nobody on the list could walk Lawrence through the > downgrading process (as you have probably found out, it's not exactly a thing > a newbie would be able to do easily). > >> Going back to the 280.13 version fixed this. We also added the following to >> the xorg.conf file (again, don't know if we needed this but it was >> suggested in a forum entry on another forum and we tried it *before* not >> trying it and since the driver worked after this we didn't try to revert >> this): >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "AIGLX" "on" >> Option "ignoreABI" >> EndSection > The AIGLX option is a good thing if it works, keep it. I wouldn't know about > the ignoreABI option, but maybe it is necessary for the downgraded driver. > > Lawrence should keep in mind that he should update his driver to the latest > version as soon as it comes out of nVidia, and that the issue he is having is > probably going to go away on its own... ;-) In the meantime, he should keep > using the 280 driver, and probably keep running the current version of the > kernel, until the new driver arrives. > > Best, :-) > Marko > > Darn, I missed the bugreport on downgrading to the 280 version, that would have made the time spent *hours* less. In any case, he's working now and we discussed going forward when a new driver comes out. While I tend to agree with going with the newest driver I will, as I typically do with anybody when discussing these sorts of things, advocate letting *others* be the guinea pigs and wait to see if anything shakes out after it's released before upgrading to it. He has a working system now and I wouldn't want to see that go away with another buggy driver.
Thanks for the info Marko. I'll have to check more carefully in the future. Kevin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
