Rawhide, kernels and NVIDIA

[Prima Yogi Loviniltra]

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On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, 6:39 PM Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 12:56 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > > […]
> >
> > As a general rule of thumb anything proprietary binary only will be
> > painful in rawhide. Anything can change through out the dev cycle and
> > you have to wait for the vendor to catch up. Recently Xorg was bumped
> > to the latest release requiring a rebuild for the new ABI. You can
> > either use nouveau and have the latest and greatest or retrieve the
> > last Xorg server build from koji that supported the ABI required by
> > the proprietary driver and downgrade to that that exclude the
> > affected
> > packages from being upgraded.
>
> Indeed, I expect nothing but pain with Rawhide :-)
>
> As it happens, yesterday NVIDIA released 358.16 which explicitly fixes
> the Xorg ABI 20 issue. Moreover, it compiles and appears to work fine
> (*) on kernel 4.3. However on kernel 4.4-RC there appear to be
> problems: I tend to find this has always been the case – no matter
> using the special no debug kernels, only the formal release kernels
> have ever really worked. So nothing new there.
>
> (*) For some definition of the word fine. Sadly I am getting kernel
> problems with the Fedora 4.3 kernel + 358.16 which are not happening
> with the Debian 4.2 kernel with 358.16. I will assume NVIDIA haven't
> quite got the Xorg ABI 20 stuff sorted properly as yet.
>
> Sadly nouveau really doesn't do a good enough job for the GNOME Shell,
> etc. behaviour that I want to work with. But that is my problem.
>
> > > I am not using the Fedora packaged NVIDIA driver so I have no idea
> > > if
> > > that works. Nor am I using the Nouveau driver as it stops various
> > > features of the GNOME UI that I rely on for sanity.
> >
> > Fedora doesn't package the NVIDIA driver, I presume you're referring
> > to the rpmfusion.org one.
>
> Yes indeed. And it isn't really up to scratch. And with the Debian
> support for the NVIDIA driver being such an outright mess, downloading
> the NVIDIA release is always the best strategy.
>
> It is worth adding that Rawhide seems to work perfectly well (bar the
> occasional glitch) on my Lenovo X series laptops, so I tend to run Sid
> on the workstation and Rawhide on the laptops.
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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