Hard Freezes with F20 on Lenovo ThinkPad T430

[Kevin Martin]

On 02/27/2014 03:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/27/2014 01:15 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
>> On 02/27/2014 02:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 02/27/2014 11:32 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
>>>> I find that I can't run with acceleration turned on with the nouveau driver at all and I've been loathe to try the nVidia driver
>>>> again since I update the kernel fairly often using rawhide and rpmfusion doesn't tend to keep up.
>>>
>>> Just install akmod-nvidia and it will build a new kmod as needed.
>> Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. It's not true when kernel versions change (say from 3.12 to 3.13) and either nVidia
>> hasn't updated their code to compile for it or rpmfusion hasn't loaded the latest nVidia drivers.  Then I'm stuck having to go back
>> to nouveau, blah blah blah...It becomes quite a hassle..Sigh...guess that's what's meant by bleeding edge!
>>
> 
> I have both kmod and akmod installed.  That way, if the new kernel and the kmod come out together, it's taken care of by the
> update.  If not, it's taken care of as soon as I boot into the new kernel.  So far, I've never had this combo fail, and I've been
> doing it for several years.
So I gave your suggestion a try last night and no joy.   Installed kmod and akmods for nvidia, it pulled in the requisite x nvidia
packages, and it just wouldn't run at all.  When I looked to see what was up I realized that the nvidia module hadn't
loaded...strange, thought I!  So I tried to manually load it with modprobe and received the error "Error: could not insert 'nvidia'
:Exec format error".  Bummer.  So then I downloaded the nvidia package from nvidia directly and, no joy, won't compile (I did do a
little looking around and saw some information about patches that needed to be applied to get nvidia to build on 3.13+ kernels and
tried those patches but the build failed in other places).  So I had to fall back to nouveau.  Bleah!  Ah well, at least I've got a
functioning (albeit not accelerated) system!

I'm running latest updated rawhide (3.14.0-0.rc4.git0.1).
Kevin