Slow graphics after last kernel update (I think)

john wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Sat Jul 17 05:17:37 UTC 2010


On 07/16/2010 03:20 PM, Michael Miles wrote:
> On 07/16/2010 02:32 PM, mikael.larsson at bredband.net wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:58:28 -0600, Kevin Fenzi<kevin at scrye.com>   wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:45:39 +0200
>>> <mikael.larsson at bredband.net>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sorry but I don't remember if there were, but I don't think so.
>>>> Maybe someone else can answer if there were such a update recently
>>>> puched out?
>>>>
>>> Check the /var/log/yum.log file or use 'yum history list' and 'yum
>>> history info N' where N is a number from the history list. That will
>>> show you exactly what packages were added/removed/updated/etc.
>>>
>>> kevin
>>>
>> Well, just when I thought I knew it all I learned something new :)
>>
>> # cat /var/log/yum.log | grep drv-ati
>> [2010-04-15 17:26:35,681] DEBUG   : Matched
>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-0.10.20091006git457646d73.fc12.i686 to require for
>> xorg-x11-drv-ati
>> [2010-04-15 17:26:35,684] DEBUG   : TSINFO: Marking
>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-0.10.20091006git457646d73.fc12.i686 as install for
>> xorg-x11-drivers-7.3-13.fc12.i686
>> Apr 15 18:23:37 Installed:
>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware-6.13.0-0.21.20100219gite68d3a389.fc12.i686
>> Apr 15 19:32:55 Updated:
>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-0.21.20100219gite68d3a389.fc12.i686
>>
>>
>>
> I know the Nvidia kmod for the new kernel is not available yet
>
> I don't run ati but it sure sound like the driver is bad.
>
> try and downgrade the ati driver to the last one available?

Running kernel 2.6.34.1 + NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.35 on F11 here. You 
really don't need to be a slave to a package maintainer.

Regards,

John



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