Hard Freezes with F20 on Lenovo ThinkPad T430

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Hello,

  Rawhide? As far as I know I have F20 installed. Perhaps something went
wrong when I upgraded from F19 to F20?

     Best,
     Oliver



On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:

> On 03/14/2014 12:31 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker issued this missive:
>
>>
>>       Hello,
>>
>>    Problem continues. Had at least five hard freezes today. Any advice?
>>
>>    Thanks!
>>
>>       Best,
>>       Oliver
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Kevin Martin <ktmdms at gmail.com
>> <mailto:ktmdms at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     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).
>>
>
> Not to burst your bubble, but this list deals with F19 and F20, not
> rawhide. For rawhide stuff, you need to start posting to the developers
> list. It is entirely possible that the kernel module you have is NOT
> compatible with a rawhide kernel since the rawhide kernel isn't released
> yet.
>
> Also note that you should use either kmod-nvidia or akmod-nvidia, not
> both. I use kmod-nvidia for my G86 (Quadro NVS 290) Tesla card. I
> specifically use the kmod-nvidia-<kernelversion> module.
>
> As far as loading the module, you should back up your
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace it with something like:
>
>         Section "Device"
>                 Identifier  "Videocard0"
>                 Driver      "nvidia"
>         EndSection
>
> and let X load the module when X starts up.
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-- 
Oliver Ruebenacker
Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com>
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
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