livna nvidia at last!

[Tom Horsley]

Downloaded the latest kmod-nvidia from livna this morning, and finally
I can run my monitor at the 1920x1200 resolution God (or DELL, anyway)
intended it to run at. Still have to add the bogus driver option:

	Option	    "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck"

but that isn't new with this card (something somewhere insists that the
max pixel clock rate is considerably lower than the actual max rate
for a DVI interface, so I have to make the driver ignore that bogus
info, and it works perfectly - smoke hasn't yet started coming out of
the system after all these years of ignoring the pixel clock check :-).

Together with the magic ServerFlags option:

	Option	    "AutoAddDevices" "False"

(which makes DragLockButtons work again so my trackball is functional),
and I'm almost ready to declare fedora 9 finally usable :-).

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 18:44 -0500, Erich Zigler wrote:
>  Now if only the nv driver would work on my system long enough to
> just
>  do the install I would be really happy.
>  
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439609
>  
>  Unfortunately the text based installer doesn't allow you to pick and
>  choose your packages or I would use it. 
You should be able to use the vesa driver.  I think you enter "linux
vesa" on the prompt line when you boot the installer.

>  
>   
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

[Erich Zigler]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs(a)clemson.edu&gt; wrote:

>  You should be able to use the vesa driver.  I think you enter
> "linux
>  vesa" on the prompt line when you boot the installer. 
The vesa driver works correctly. Thank you!

[Erich Zigler]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs(a)clemson.edu&gt; wrote:

>  You should be able to use the vesa driver.  I think you enter
> "linux
>  vesa" on the prompt line when you boot the installer. 
The vesa driver works correctly. Thank you!

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 29 May 2008 18:44:17 -0500
"Erich Zigler" <ezigler(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Unfortunately the text based installer doesn't allow you to pick
> and
>  choose your packages or I would use it. 
You can use "yum search" to get a list of matching packages,
then "yum install" to install exactly the one you want once
you know the full names.

[Erich Zigler]

Now if only the nv driver would work on my system long enough to just
do the install I would be really happy.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439609

Unfortunately the text based installer doesn't allow you to pick and
choose your packages or I would use it.

[Bill Davidsen]

Mike Chambers wrote:
>  On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 12:18 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Downloaded the latest kmod-nvidia from livna this morning, and finally
> > I can run my monitor at the 1920x1200 resolution God (or DELL, anyway)
> > intended it to run at. Still have to add the bogus driver option:
>  
>  Upgraded to newer kernel in test and the driver no longer works.  Not
>  having used livna's mods hardly, is there an rpm that will automake or
>  use the newer kernel without having to reinstall and/or rebuild the
>  driver?
>   
There is a thread called "Today's Kernel is no good" and a few
comments 
floating around. You might sit back and see if the new kernel becomes 
the "newer kernel."

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com&gt;
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

[Tom Horsley]

>  > Downloaded the latest kmod-nvidia from livna this morning, and
> finally
>  > I can run my monitor at the 1920x1200 resolution God (or DELL, anyway)
>  > intended it to run at. Still have to add the bogus driver option:
>  
>  Upgraded to newer kernel in test and the driver no longer works.  Not
>  having used livna's mods hardly, is there an rpm that will automake or
>  use the newer kernel without having to reinstall and/or rebuild the
>  driver? 
I see both kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia. Possibly the akmod version
is the one that uses dkms (or something like it) to build the proper
kernel driver at boot time if necessary, but I'm not entirely
certain about that.

I usually just wait a day after a new kernel comes out and the new
livna module has usually shown up by then.

[Mike Chambers]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 12:18 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  Downloaded the latest kmod-nvidia from livna this morning, and
> finally
>  I can run my monitor at the 1920x1200 resolution God (or DELL, anyway)
>  intended it to run at. Still have to add the bogus driver option: 
Upgraded to newer kernel in test and the driver no longer works.  Not
having used livna's mods hardly, is there an rpm that will automake or
use the newer kernel without having to reinstall and/or rebuild the
driver?

-- 
Mike Chambers
Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc..
mikec302(a)fedoraproject.org