Hello,
Problem continues. Had at least five hard freezes today. Any advice?
Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Kevin Martin <ktm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/27/2014 03:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 02/27/2014 01:15 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> >> On 02/27/2014 02:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> >>> On 02/27/2014 11:32 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> >>>> I find that I can't run with acceleration turned on with the nouveau
> driver at all and I've been loathe to try the nVidia driver
> >>>> again since I update the kernel fairly often using rawhide and
> rpmfusion doesn't tend to keep up.
> >>>
> >>> Just install akmod-nvidia and it will build a new kmod as needed.
> >> Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. It's not true when kernel
> versions change (say from 3.12 to 3.13) and either nVidia
> >> hasn't updated their code to compile for it or rpmfusion hasn't loaded
> the latest nVidia drivers. Then I'm stuck having to go back
> >> to nouveau, blah blah blah...It becomes quite a hassle..Sigh...guess
> that's what's meant by bleeding edge!
> >>
> >
> > I have both kmod and akmod installed. That way, if the new kernel and
> the kmod come out together, it's taken care of by the
> > update. If not, it's taken care of as soon as I boot into the new
> kernel. So far, I've never had this combo fail, and I've been
> > doing it for several years.
> So I gave your suggestion a try last night and no joy. Installed kmod
> and akmods for nvidia, it pulled in the requisite x nvidia
> packages, and it just wouldn't run at all. When I looked to see what was
> up I realized that the nvidia module hadn't
> loaded...strange, thought I! So I tried to manually load it with modprobe
> and received the error "Error: could not insert 'nvidia'
> :Exec format error". Bummer. So then I downloaded the nvidia package
> from nvidia directly and, no joy, won't compile (I did do a
> little looking around and saw some information about patches that needed
> to be applied to get nvidia to build on 3.13+ kernels and
> tried those patches but the build failed in other places). So I had to
> fall back to nouveau. Bleah! Ah well, at least I've got a
> functioning (albeit not accelerated) system!
>
> I'm running latest updated rawhide (3.14.0-0.rc4.git0.1).
> Kevin
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