nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan wrote:
>> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Waleed Harbi wrote:
>>>>>Try download nvidia driver from Nvidia web site, then download the
>>>>>kernel-dev rpm via yum after that start the installation in level 3.
>>>>>Nvidia they have driver for linux, and it is working fine with me.
>>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>>>>
>>>> The kernels video API was changed withn the first 2.6.25 release
>>>> candidate,
>>>> and the driver available in the .12.run package will not build on
>>>> 2.6.25-x
>>>> kernels, unless they have released a new driver in the last 24 hours or
>>>> so.
>>>> I gave up, there is now an ati based 2400HD in this system.  But I
>>>> can't
>>>> watch tv with tvtime now, that overlay interface is missing from the
>>>> radeonhd
>>>> driver.
>>>
>>>Check the nVIDIA forums.  There is a patch for this problem available for
>>>download.
>>
>> Yes, and I have it, but it fails to apply.  The patch instructs are a bit
>> obtuse to me.  I've watched the errors because they can't code worth a
>> damn
>> go by even when it says the build is good, been doing it for a couple of
>> years.  Strange things have happened in that 2 years too, such as getting
>> LSN0 wiped clean at least once.  Screw it, I need something more stable
>> than
>> NVIDIA's own drivers have proven to be.
>
>I wish I could test it.  My laptop is trying to resemble a nuclear reactor
>at the moment.  (Overheats on boot.)  I hope to order a new one tomorrow,
>but it will be a few weeks before I get the new one.
>
>Maybe on the home system...  I will check what kernel I am using there.
>
>>>> As a tv engineer, that sucks, so I'm damned either way.
>>>
>>>As a tv engineer, you are damned no matter what.
>>
>> Chuckle.  Either that, or if you are good at it, you get accused of
>> walking on
>> water, which I have been occasionally.  Even though I've been given the
>> rolex
>> and retired into a transmitter maintenance role for 4 years now, the phone
>> still rings when the SHTF.
>
>In my job if you are good at it you are more likely accused of having a
>pact with satan before being accused of walking on water.

Chuckle, so I have to relate the story of the first time that happened to me.

I had gone to New Mexico, to what was one market above the bottom of the 
ladder, as the Chief and only engineer.  This was in '77 IIRC.  I'd hit them 
up for a $50k life policy as one of the fringie's.  A couple of months later, 
the local New York Life folks wanted to see if I was a good risk & asked if 
they could send a couple of their parameds around to see if I was breathing 
regularly & all that.  Only 43 then, I was in pretty good shape but getting a 
beer gut.

They came over to the motel where I was still camped out a couple of evenings 
later and gave me a rather cursory physical.  When they were done with that, 
one of them asked if I could take off my shoes and socks.  That seemed 
unusual so I asked what my probably flat feet had to do with this policy?  
His reply was: "Oh, nothing, but we'd been told you could walk on water and I 
wanted to see if your feet were webbed.'  I damned near busted a gut laughing 
so hard and they had little choice but to join me.

I'd pay $500 for a video of that just for later replay.  Like MasterCard, 
priceless...

I think the GM had been bragging.  It would have been 'in character' if he 
had.

Station Christmas party at his house the next fall, he made the brag he could 
drink me under the table, with his wife and mine alternating mixing the 
poison.  About an hour and a half later I helped his wife carry him upstairs 
and put him to bed, he was all done.  He never made that bet again.  I even 
drove us home an hour later, probably not too well but I didn't scare the 
missus either.

Needless to say, I won't willingly forget that occasion either. :)

Thanks for listening.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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