More experiences with F18

[Kevin Martin]

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