On 12/04/2024 12:58, John Pilkington wrote:
On 12/04/2024 00:52, home user wrote:
> On 4/11/24 5:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 4/11/24 16:36, home user wrote:
>>> On 4/11/24 5:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>>> On 4/11/24 16:05, home user wrote:
>>>>>
/tmp/akmodsbuild.2VNb1GB1/BUILD/nvidia-470xx-kmod-470.223.02/_kmod_build_6.8.4-100.fc38.x86_64/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:748:40:
error: 'DRM_UNLOCKED' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean
'VM_LOCKED'?
>>>>
>>>> There has been a kernel change of some sort. The driver needs to
>>>> be updated to match the kernel.
>>>>
>>>> You will not get this driver to build on any newer kernels.
>>>> --
>>>
>>> So realistically, my only practical choice is what Todd suggested,
>>> "to just switch to the stuff Nvidia provides directly"?
>>
>> Unless there's a hope of the rpmfusion package getting updated, it
>> looks like it. I'm not really familiar with akmods, but maybe you
>> could just update the source somehow.
>
> I'm not a systems administrator. I need someone to step me through
> the full switch in detail.
> Reminders:
> This is a dual boot (Fedora-38 and windows-7) stand-alone work
> station; it's 11 years old.
> I have only one old kernel, and no rescue kernel.
> The graphics card is an nvidia GeForce GTX 660.
> (anything else?)
I have two systems affected by this, and have posted about it on the
rpmfusion and fedora-kde lists. I'm having trouble accessing the
rpmfusion archive, so maybe a comment here is in order.
Both systems have GeForce GT 710 cards. This is low-spec, not for
gamers, and I've been using the rpmfusion 470xx drivers for years. I
upgraded from F38 to F39 around 2 weeks ago.
AIUI we are moving from X11 graphics towards Wayland, which the nvidia
driver will not support; but nouveau might. So I've been trying it.
On one box it's working acceptably, with VGA nad HDMI screens.
Single-boot F39.
The other box is dual-boot with Windows 10. I can boot into Fedora only
with 'nomodeset', when I get a single screen HDMI 800x600 which seems
fine but limited. I can run MythTV frontend with --geometry
720x504+40+20
The biggest worry is getting past a frozen boot, so I don't want to make
any recommendations. I have removed all the *nvidia* rpms except
nvidia-gpu-firmware, and installed nouveau-firmware from the
rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted repo.
Maybe the rpmfusion team will make the old system work soon, or maybe
the even-older but just-updated 340xx driver would work. I'll try
living with what I have for now.
After kernel and firmware updates today the behaviour of both systems,
using nouveau, seems essentially unchanged from the report above.
kernel now is 6.8.5-201.fc39.x86-64
If the 'nomodeset' is edited out in grub, a reboot of the dual-boot box
still hangs almost immediately.
I've removed the claim that mythleanfront works with mythbackend on the
dual-boot box. I think that was mistaken, and a local permissions issue.
HTH
John P