More experiences with F18

[Kevin Martin]

On 10/26/12 11:25, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> 
> On 10/26/2012 09:22 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
>> On 10/26/12 10:44, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>>> On 10/26/2012 06:21 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
>>>> On 10/25/12 23:42, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>>>>> While waiting for a more functional Anaconda I have been
>>>>> running 64 bit F18 with yum updates.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Noveau driver still crashes.  Fortunately Nvidia still installs.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am able to run SCO Openserver 5.0.7 under the virtual machine.
>>>>> Select i686, pcnet, and 4.4bsd.
>>>>>
>>>>> Audacity puts its data in the root segment by default.   This eventually
>>>>> overflows the small root FS generated by Anaconda.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Hmm, I wonder if they've made changes in upstream nouveau.  I'm running rawhide and have not experienced any crashes of nouveau
>>>> (although I have other issues with nouveau, just not crashing) and *can't* get the nvidia driver to install (either from rpmfusion
>>>> or from nvidia directly; it doesn't build from the akmod, there is no kmod package for my kernel, and the nvidia .run file won't
>>>> build (I've sent a request to nvidia for help after doing some debugging)).  It appears that the nvidia builder script doesn't take
>>>> into account include files that have been moved to uapi and/or generated/uapi (why must something that's working be messed with all
>>>> of the time?).
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>   I am using NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.60.run
>>>
>>> 1.  Change "rhgb quiet" to "nomodeset" in the active grub.cfg entry
>>> 2.  Reboot
>>> 3.  init 3
>>> 4.  sh NV*
>>>
>>> As I keyboard this, I am running Xfce with composting on.
>>> Random screensavers are enabled.  WSPR is running with
>>> one sound card and a real serial port.  Lady Heather is
>>> running under Wine using a USB serial port to talk to
>>> a Trimble Thunderbolt.  Ham Radio Deluxe's rotator control
>>> under Wine interrogates a rotator 1/sec using the other
>>> USB serial port.  Audacity has been recording sound
>>> using the motherboard sound device for 21 hours.
>>> I have also been playing with SCO Openserver 5.0.7 under
>>> the virtual machine manager.  Also have been using
>>> VNC, Firefox to talk to the world.  The system has not crashed
>>> using the Nvidia driver.  Knock on wood.
>>>
>>>
>> Which kernel are you running?  I can't get 304.60 to build on 3.7.0-0.rc2.git1.2.fc19.x86_64 (rawhide).  It can't figure out the
>> kernel version so it won't even try to build.
>>
>>
>> Kevin
>  uname -a
> Linux omen3.omen.com 3.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 23 14:55:06 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [caf at omen3 X11]$ ll N*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64146553 Oct 25 03:47 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.60.run
> 
> Yum update is current.
> 
I think between 3.6 and 3.7 there was a change of where some of the kernel source include files are held (from
/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include to /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`/include/uapi and /usr/src/kernels/`uname
-r`/include/generated/uapi) that is screwing up building of the nvidia drivers (for example, in 3.7, the version.h file found under
include/linux is empty and has been moved to include//generated/uapi/linux but the nvidia-installer sript run by the .run script
doesn't find that version (either at all or early enough to be able to use it).

Kevin