Kernel 2.6.7 and NVIDIA

[Mike Clow]

I know this has prob been asked a thousand times before but....
I have recently downloaded the source for kernel 2.6.7 and recompiled with 
8K stacks instead of 4.  Nvidia Driver still freezes machine on boot.  I am 
thinking I missed changing something in the kernel config.  I ran make 
oldconfig to generate a .config file (based on kernel 2.6.6-1.435) in my 
linux-2.6.7 dir, than ran make xconfig changed my CPU to Athlon, made sure I 
was using 8K stacks and left the rest defaulted to my .config 
file......Booted new kernel, Installed the Nvidia Drivers, made changes to 
xorg.conf.  System freezes on boot.  Did I miss changing something in the 
kernel config?? Any suggestions??

_________________________________________________________________
STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE*    
http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI...

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:34:54AM -0300, Mike Clow wrote:
> I know this has prob been asked a thousand times before but....
> I have recently downloaded the source for kernel 2.6.7 and recompiled with 
> 8K stacks instead of 4.  Nvidia Driver still freezes machine on boot.  I am 
> thinking I missed changing something in the kernel config.  I ran make 
> oldconfig to generate a .config file (based on kernel 2.6.6-1.435) in my 
> linux-2.6.7 dir, than ran make xconfig changed my CPU to Athlon, made sure 
> I was using 8K stacks and left the rest defaulted to my .config 
> file......Booted new kernel, Installed the Nvidia Drivers, made changes to 
> xorg.conf.  System freezes on boot.  Did I miss changing something in the 
> kernel config?? Any suggestions??

There is experimental rpm support for nvidia on FC2 at

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/nvidia-graphics/
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/kernel-testing/

Please test and report to me, or the ATrpms lists.

Thanks!

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:34:54AM -0300, Mike Clow wrote:
> I know this has prob been asked a thousand times before but....
> I have recently downloaded the source for kernel 2.6.7 and recompiled with 
> 8K stacks instead of 4.  Nvidia Driver still freezes machine on boot.  I am 
> thinking I missed changing something in the kernel config.  I ran make 
> oldconfig to generate a .config file (based on kernel 2.6.6-1.435) in my 
> linux-2.6.7 dir, than ran make xconfig changed my CPU to Athlon, made sure 
> I was using 8K stacks and left the rest defaulted to my .config 
> file......Booted new kernel, Installed the Nvidia Drivers, made changes to 
> xorg.conf.  System freezes on boot.  Did I miss changing something in the 
> kernel config?? Any suggestions??

t is hard to say without knowing more. You did install the NVIDIA in a
terminal at init level 3? You changed the video driver from nv to
nvidia and commented out the LOAD dri line in xorg.conf.

NVIDIA DRIVER

[Ron Hawkins]

NVIDIA released the new 4kstack supported driver today!!!!!!!!

NVIDIA DRIVER

[Razvan Corneliu C.R. "d3vi1" VILT]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 14:59 -0500, Ronald Hawkins wrote:
> NVIDIA released the new 4kstack supported driver today!!!!!!!!

And it finally has acpi support!!!

It works lika a charm even with 2.6.7-1.459 (from rawhide). Only thing I
had to do was:
export CC=gcc34 before recompiling the driver(this is only for rawhide).

Cheers,

Răzvan Corneliu VILT                      e-mail:[e-mail]
GPG:http://d3vi1.linux360.ro/public-keys/ www: http://d3vi1.linux360.ro/

NVIDIA DRIVER

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 16:55, Razvan Corneliu C.R. "d3vi1" VILT 
wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 14:59 -0500, Ronald Hawkins wrote:
> > NVIDIA released the new 4kstack supported driver today!!!!!!!!
>
> And it finally has acpi support!!!
>
> It works lika a charm even with 2.6.7-1.459 (from rawhide). Only
> thing I had to do was:
> export CC=gcc34 before recompiling the driver(this is only for
> rawhide).

And what about us that are still dragging our feet and running 
gcc-3.3.2?  On an FC1 system no less.  With 2.6.7+ kernels of course.
> Cheers,
>
> Răzvan Corneliu VILT                     
> e-mail:[e-mail]
> GPG:http://d3vi1.linux360.ro/public-keys/ www:
> http://d3vi1.linux360.ro/

NVIDIA DRIVER

[Scott Sloan]

> And what about us that are still dragging our feet and running 
> gcc-3.3.2?  On an FC1 system no less.  With 2.6.7+ kernels of course.

Nvidia drivers still will work fine. No problems for me and I have the
same setup

NVIDIA DRIVER

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 21:49, Scott Sloan wrote:
> > And what about us that are still dragging our feet and running
> > gcc-3.3.2?  On an FC1 system no less.  With 2.6.7+ kernels of
> > course.
>
> Nvidia drivers still will work fine. No problems for me and I have
> the same setup

Great, I might see if I can get it installed tomorrow.  OTOH, that 
gets me back to rebuilding it each time I update the kernel before I 
can do a startx.  And thats a PITA.  99.9% of this old farts usage 
doesn't need it, but somebody said the fonts are better, so...
> --
> Scott Sloan

NVIDIA DRIVER

[Scott Sloan]

> 99.9% of this old farts usage 
> doesn't need it, but somebody said the fonts are better, so...

Fonts are nicer and my processor no longer has to render xscreensaver's
opengl stuff. Which is nice. But yeah, doesn't makes the compiles any
quicker :(

[Kevin Johnson]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 09:37, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:34:54AM -0300, Mike Clow wrote:
> > I know this has prob been asked a thousand times before but....
> > I have recently downloaded the source for kernel 2.6.7 and recompiled with 
> > 8K stacks instead of 4.  Nvidia Driver still freezes machine on boot.  I am 
> > thinking I missed changing something in the kernel config.  I ran make 
> > oldconfig to generate a .config file (based on kernel 2.6.6-1.435) in my 
> > linux-2.6.7 dir, than ran make xconfig changed my CPU to Athlon, made sure 
> > I was using 8K stacks and left the rest defaulted to my .config 
> > file......Booted new kernel, Installed the Nvidia Drivers, made changes to 
> > xorg.conf.  System freezes on boot.  Did I miss changing something in the 
> > kernel config?? Any suggestions??
>
> t is hard to say without knowing more. You did install the NVIDIA in a
> terminal at init level 3? You changed the video driver from nv to
> nvidia and commented out the LOAD dri line in xorg.conf.
> --
>
> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> One Trinity Place.
> San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
>
> telephone: [phone]
> email:[e-mail]

Anyone noticed that Nvidia has released a new version of the driver for
Linux with support for 4k Stacks.....?

Version: 1.0-6106
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: June 30, 2004

Release Highlights

* Added support for GeForce 6800 series of GPUs
      * Added support for PCI-Express 
      * Added support for GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language).
      * Added support for GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object.
      * Fixed problem that prevented 32-bit kernel driver from running
        on certain AMD64 CPUs.
      * Added support for ACPI
      *  Added support for 4kstack kernels.
      *  Added configuration utility "nvidia-settings".  For details,
        see the user guide
      * Added a shell script "nvidia-bug-report.sh" that gathers system
        configuration information into a log file; the resulting log
        file (nvidia-bug-report.log) should be included when reporting
        bugs to NVIDIA.
      *  Added a new Xv adaptor on GeForce4 and GeForce FX which uses
        the 3D engine to do Xv PutImage requests.
      * View the README (Text Version) for more information on this
        release.

[Giandomenico De Tullio]

On 30/06/2004 23:55:44, Kevin Johnson wrote:
> Anyone noticed that Nvidia has released a new version of the driver
> for
> Linux with support for 4k Stacks.....?

no, are you sure !? ;)  <g>

[Tom Mitchell]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:02:02AM +0200, Giandomenico De Tullio wrote:
> On 30/06/2004 23:55:44, Kevin Johnson wrote:
> > Anyone noticed that Nvidia has released a new version of the driver
> > for
> > Linux with support for 4k Stacks.....?
>
> no, are you sure !? ;)  <g>

It is true.
Running it as I type.
$ w
 00:02:02 up 3 days,  7:05,  7 users,  load average: 2.08, 1.98, 2.01
 ...

OpenGL screen savers too.