[PlanetCCRMA] Need help getting realtime kernel working with Fedora 8 and nvidia

[Paul Vallee]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your help.
I'm glad that your solution uses the livna-supplied drivers rather than the
nvidia-supplied drivers because I understand from reading this article:

Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)
<https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01178.html>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01178.html

that the drivers supplied by Nvidia overwrite some OpenGL libraries with
their own versions of those libraries. Very naughty.

Before I can proceed I need ask you a few questions:

1. How do I find out if I have the plantetccrma kernel-devel package
installed on my system and if it's not there, how do I get it?

2. Do I have to remove the livna-supplied nvidia driver that I have already
installed on my Fedora 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 kernel, or can it co-exist peacefully
with the one I'm about to install on the planetccrma
2.6.24.3-1.rt1.2.fc8.ccrmart kernel?

3. Do I have to do the installation as root or should I do it as a regular
user?

4. Which 'package' do I need to download from livna: *
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-169.12.1.lvn8.src.rpm*, *
nvidia-kmod-169.12-7.lvn8.src.rpm*, ...?

Thanks


On 5/8/08, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I highly suggest you use the RPM source -- it keeps things much
> cleaner, and you get to use the pretty nifty livna-config-display
> scripts (one of which is nvidia-config-display).
>
> I posted some directions on this here:
>
> http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2008-April/014640.html
>
>
> I think everything there is correct -- please let me know if it works
> or if you have any questions -- if you want I can post what the
> beginning of the final .spec file looks like when I do it.
>
> (hopefully I'M doing it right!...  )
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 19:11:58 -0700
> > From: "Paul Vallee" <pv.vallee at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Need help getting realtime kernel working with
> >        Fedora  8 and nvidia
> > To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> > Message-ID:
> >        <830daa640805071911r6708a09and2d0b8d323c895f6 at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just installed Fedora Core 8 on my laptop and am very anxious to get
> > the planetccrma realtime kernel and all of those wonderful applications
> > running on it. But I'm having a problem getting the rt kernel working.
> >
> > First, my vital statistics:
> >
> > Computer: HP Pavilion dv9608ca laptop, AMD Athlon 64/x2 cpu, 2GHz, 2GB
> > memory
> > video card: nvidia MCP67M (GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M compatible)
> > Installed kernel that is working properly with the (livna-supplied)
> nvidia
> > driver: 2.6.24.5-85.fc8
> > Installed ccrma kernel: 2.6.24.3-1.rt1.2.fc8.ccrmart (NOT WORKING)
> >
> > Here's my story:
> >
> > I've successfully installed Fedora Core 8 on my laptop and now have a
> > dual-boot system with Windows Vista as the other OS and GRUB as my
> > bootloader. Everything working fine at this point. Then I installed the
> > nvidia driver from livna to get full support for my display. Everything
> > working superfine at this point. Played around with it for a couple of
> days,
> > no problems.
> >
> > Then I followed the instructions at planetccrma and installed the
> realtime
> > kernel listed above. No problems yet.
> >
> > When I rebooted into the ccrma kernel I noticed some error messages
> > involving the nvidia driver. Couldn't find nvidia.ro or something like
> that.
> > I didn't see the nvidia splash screen during boot either, so it
> definitely
> > wasn't initializing properly. When I got to the login screen I was able
> to
> > login to the GUI but it was unstable and eventually just froze; no
> response
> > from mouse or keyboard. I've read many of the posts on various forums
> about
> > similar problems being experienced by others and their solutions, but
> it's
> > all a bit confusing and I don't want to do something out of desperation
> and
> > loose my whole system in the process.
> >
> > Here's what I THINK the problem is:
> >
> > Because I installed the nvidia driver while running under the
> > 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 kernel (and before installing the planetccrma realtime
> > kernel) it only works with that kernel, and does not work with the ccrma
> > kernel. After viewing the livna repository files I noted that there
> aren't
> > any driver rpm's for the ccrma version of the kernel
> > (2.6.24.3-1.rt1.2.fc8.ccrmart). Many people talked about this in the
> forums
> > and suggested downloading the livna sources and re-compiling the driver
> for
> > the ccrma kernel. Is this what I need to do?
> >
> > Here's what I THINK I have to do:
> >
> > 1. Install the kernel-rt-devel package for the ccrma realtime kernel (do
> I
> > need the kernel-headers too?)
> > 2. Download the source rpm's for the livna driver
> > 3. Install the source rpm's for the livna driver
> > 4. Compile the livna source rpm's and install the resulting binary rpm's
> > while running under the ccrma realtime kernel
> > 5. Reboot and I will be in ccrma heaven
> >
> > Is this correct?
> > If so, could someone please give me, or point me to, detailed
> instructions
> > on how to accomplish this. I'm far from a Linux expert and very new to
> > Fedora.
> >
> > If it's not correct, could someone please illuminate me.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Paul Vallee
> > pv.vallee at gmail.com
> >
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Kind Regards,

Paul Vallee
pv.vallee at gmail.com

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