Fedora 17 Crashes on fresh install

Tue Aug 14 22:30:06 UTC 2012

On 08/14/2012 01:41 PM, And Kemp wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> From what I can see from the information you've provided, your 
> installation really doesn't like your graphics card.  From a quick 
> Google search, it would appear that the 'NV40' in the error messages 
> refers to a fairly old nVidia graphics card.  As a new user of this 
> forum I don't know if I'm stepping on toes, but I'd suggest that 
> firstly you try and find out what your graphics card actually is, 
> particularly if you're the owner of a brand spanking new system (if 
> you're a windoze user you should be able to determine this from Start 
> | Control panel | Hardware and Sound, then look for options regarding 
> your display)!
>
> If that's a little unpalatable, I do have a couple of links for you:
> Configure an nVidia card.  The steps taken here may be suitable for 
> you to replicate :-)
> http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/
> There's a configuration request posting that might be some use:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2006-August/305155.html
> View your hardware in Fedora (I did find this a little hard to follow 
> personally)
> http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/01/view-hardwaresystem-information-in-fedora-14-laughlin-with-hardinfo/ 
>
>
> Also, it would appear that prior to updating your stuff with yum, it's 
> always a plan to update the version of yum itself:
> yum update yum
>
> (Note: You *can* update all installed packages with:
> yum update
> but you may [at least in principle] leave yourself open to a security 
> breach if there's a nefarious soul out there with dodgy packages...)
>
> Hope that at least gives you some other things to try.  Good luck.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> And.
>
> On 14/08/2012 3:10 PM, Jim wrote:
>> On 08/14/2012 12:44 PM, Jim wrote:
>>> F17 / KDE
>>>
>>> It will crash when trying install.
>>>
>>> It will crash when your trying do yum update.
>>>
>>> There is no pattern as to when it will crash.
>>>
>>> When the crash happens it takes you back to a black screen with a 
>>> lot of white print.
>>>
>>> Below is the last three lines of crash when I was trying to do a yum 
>>> update
>>>
>>> 889.604907 [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Setting dpms mode3 on vga 
>>> encorder (output 0)
>>>
>>> 889.605017 [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on vga 
>>> encorder (output 0)
>>>
>>> 889.605017 [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: output vga-1 is running on 
>>> CRTC 0 using output A
>>
>>
>> Here is a copy of dmesg for "drm"
>>
>>
>> [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
>> [    1.248941] wmi: Mapper loaded
>> [    1.259299] VGA switcheroo: detected Optimus DSM method \ handle
>> [    1.259465] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AIGP] enabled at IRQ 21
>> [    1.259486] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: setting latency timer to 64
>> [    1.260475] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Detected an NV40 
>> generation card (0x04c000a2)
>> [    1.260479] checking generic (d0000000 c00000) vs hw (d0000000 
>> 10000000)
>> [    1.260481] fb: conflicting fb hw usage nouveaufb vs VESA VGA - 
>> removing generic driver
>> [    1.260503] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
>> [    1.262073] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Attempting to load BIOS 
>> image from PRAMIN
>> [    1.305483] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ... appears to be valid
>> [    1.305486] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: BIT BIOS found
>> [    1.305488] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Bios version 05.61.32.31
>> [    1.305492] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: TMDS table version 1.1
>> [    1.305899] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: MXM: no VBIOS data, 
>> nothing to do
>> [    1.305909] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB version 3.0
>> [    1.305918] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB outp 00: 01000310 
>> 00000023
>> [    1.305926] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB outp 01: 00110204 
>> 942b0003
>> [    1.305932] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB conn 00: 0000
>> [    1.305939] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB conn 01: 1131
>> [    1.305945] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB conn 02: 0110
>> [    1.305951] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB conn 03: 0111
>> [    1.305956] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB conn 04: 0113
>> [    1.305968] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 
>> at offset 0xD9C9
>> [    1.305976] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ======= misaligned reg 
>> 0x0060081D =======
>> [    1.305991] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: ======= misaligned reg 
>> 0x0060081D =======
>> [    1.306146] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 
>> at offset 0xDB17
>> [    1.306153] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 
>> at offset 0xDB18
>> [    1.306310] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 
>> at offset 0xDC9A
>> [    1.306320] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 
>> at offset 0xDCE3
>> [    1.307188] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 1 available performance 
>> level(s)
>> [    1.307199] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 0: core 425MHz shader 
>> 425MHz fanspeed 100%
>> [    1.307213] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: c:
>> [    1.307551] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 435762 
>> kiB.
>> [    1.307555] [TTM] Zone highmem: Available graphics memory: 1162230 
>> kiB.
>> [    1.307556] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator.
>> [    1.307572] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Detected 256MiB VRAM
>> [    1.308674] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: 64 MiB GART (aperture)
>> [    1.312548] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: DCB type 4 not known
>> [    1.312550] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Unknown-1 has no encoders, 
>> removing
>> [    1.313552] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 
>> (10.10.2010).
>> [    1.313553] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
>> [    1.314459] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga 
>> encoder (output 0)
>> [    1.353593] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: allocated 1920x1080 fb: 
>> 0x49000, bo f364d000
>> [    1.354213] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
>> [    1.374110] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, 
>> idProduct=0024
>> [    1.374113] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, 
>> SerialNumber=0
>> [    1.374115] usb 2-3: Product: HP Basic USB Keyboard
>> [    1.374117] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: CHICONY
>> [    1.386657] input: CHICONY HP Basic USB Keyboard as 
>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/input/input2
>> [    1.386905] generic-usb 0003:03F0:0024.0001: input,hidraw0: USB 
>> HID v1.10 Keyboard [CHICONY HP Basic USB Keyboard] on 
>> usb-0000:00:02.0-3/input0
>> [    1.415471] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on vga 
>> encoder (output 0)
>> [    1.415481] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: Output VGA-1 is running on 
>> CRTC 0 using output A
>> [    1.415521] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
>> [    1.418311] fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
>> [    1.418316] drm: registered panic notifier
>> [    1.418337] [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 
>> 0000:00:0d.0 on minor 0
>>
>
And Kemp
  Thanks for the info, since the video adapter is not going to 
peacefully co-exist with Linux , I happen to have another PCI-e card in 
my junk box and I installed it and have not had a CRASH yet.

Thanks for the info on the on the app Hardinfo I installed it and it 
works great.