[PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue

Thu Oct 27 19:54:37 PDT 2011

On 10/27/2011 05:17 PM, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> Thanks Nando - it worked perfectly!
>
> I know in the past you had said what the command was to Fedora kernel updates, but I cannot remember what it was.  Please remind me.

Hmmm, I don't quite understand your question. A regular yum upgrade 
invocation will also update kernels, is that what you are asking? If you 
have a .rpm and want to use rpm then you should use "rpm -ivh" (not -Uvh 
as that will erase all previous kernels).

-- Fernando

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano<nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:29:47
> To:<wilkinson.bob at comcast.net>
> Cc: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano<nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>;<planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue
>
> On 10/26/2011 02:51 PM, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
>> At the risk of being impatient, any luck in testing the updated akmod patch?
>
> Sorry for the delay, it is now available in planetcore-testing for fc14,
> if you upgrade you should get a akmod-nvidi package from
> planetcore-testing instead of rpmfusion, and it has the patch that
> enables it to build on rt kernels (make sure you have the kernel-*-devel
> package for the rt kernel in question installed before you reboot).
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano<nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:14:42
>> To: Bob Wilkinson<wilkinson.bob at comcast.net>
>> Cc: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano<nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>;<planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue
>>
>> On 10/25/2011 07:22 PM, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
>>> Thank you again. I hope you truly understand how much we appreciate all
>>> the time you put into this.
>>
>> I just got the upgrade notice in my fc14 laptop, so this upgrade is very
>> recent (just bad timing for you, I guess :-) I just built an upgrade by
>> I probably won't be able to test till tomorrow.
>>
>> -- Fernando
>>
>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From: *"Fernando Lopez-Lezcano"<nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
>>> *To: *planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
>>> *Cc: *"Bob Wilkinson"<wilkinson.bob at comcast.net>
>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:35:21 PM
>>> *Subject: *Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue
>>>
>>> On 10/25/2011 03:39 PM, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
>>>>    I attempted to install the CCRMA akmod package. With the RPMFusion
>>>>    repository active, I could not see the ccrma-testing version. So, I
>>>>    disabled RPMFusion. Then I was able to see the ccrma-testing version,
>>>>    and tried to install. I got the following error:
>>>>
>>>>    18:32:36 : ERROR: Dependency resolving completed with errors
>>>>    18:32:36 : ERROR: Package:
>>>>    1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-275.09.07-1.fc14.ccrma.x86_64 (planetcore-testing)
>>>>    Requires: nvidia-settings
>>>>    18:32:36 : ERROR: Package:
>>>>    1:akmod-nvidia-275.09.07-1.fc14.ccrma.2.x86_64 (planetcore-testing)
>>>>    Requires: akmods
>>>>    18:32:36 : ERROR: Package:
>>>>    1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-275.09.07-1.fc14.ccrma.x86_64 (planetcore-testing)
>>>>    Requires: nvidia-xconfig
>>>
>>> Hmmm, you need the rpmfusion repos. I'll have to look at this tomorrow,
>>> maybe there is a newer version that was release in rpmfusion and I have
>>> to update the one in planetcore-testing. Sorry, it is hard to keep
>>> up.... :-(
>>>
>>> -- Fernando
>>>
>>>
>>>>    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>    *From: *"Fernando Lopez-Lezcano"<nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
>>>>    *To: *planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
>>>>    *Sent: *Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:06:03 PM
>>>>    *Subject: *Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue
>>>>
>>>>    On 10/25/2011 10:09 AM, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
>>>>> Thanks Nando, I'll try that tonight. I didn't realize that the rt
>>>>> version of the akmod package was in testing - that would explain why I
>>>>> couldn't find it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, one (hopefully) simple question. Since I'm running in 64 bit mode,
>>>>> the repository I used was
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/14/x86_64/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc14.ccrma.noarch.rpm
>>>>>
>>>>> rather than
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/14/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc14.ccrma.noarch.rpm
>>>>>
>>>>> Was this a mistake?
>>>>
>>>>    Hmmm, as far as I can remember both will point to the correct
>>>>    architecture (as the architecture is not hardwired in the .repo files,
>>>>    it comes from yum itself.
>>>>
>>>>    -- Fernando
>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> *From: *"Fernando Lopez-Lezcano"<nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
>>>>> *To: *"Bob Wilkinson"<wilkinson.bob at comcast.net>
>>>>> *Cc: *planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
>>>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:55:31 PM
>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/25/2011 05:50 AM, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
>>>>>> Everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I now am at a loss.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just bought a new video card for my PC, based on the NVidia GeForce
>>>>>> GT520, and installed it. I wanted to use the Nouveau drivers, as they
>>>>>> worked perfectly on my older PC that died. I installed FC14 64 bit LXDE
>>>>>> spin, and updated to the latest version of everything, and the Nouveau
>>>>>> driver did not recognize that I had two monitors attached. After
>>> playing
>>>>>> with it for more hours than I would care to count, I gave up and tried
>>>>>> the RPMFusion akmod nvidia drivers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Success! I got both screens working. They aren't as nice as the Nouveau
>>>>>> method, but they work. I then installed the RT kernel, and that's where
>>>>>> the trouble started. X simply wouldn't boot. Nothing - nada. I booted
>>>>>> back into the production Fedora kernel, and removed the RT kernel. I
>>>>>> then removed the akmod NVidia driver. I reinstalled the RT kernel,
>>> and X
>>>>>> started - albeit with only one screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> The rt kernel needs a patched version of the akmod package, the standard
>>>>> one from rpmfusion will not build on rt patched kernels. An akmod
>>>>> package is available from the planetccrma-testing repository. You also
>>>>> have to make sure you have the kernel-*-devel package installed before
>>>>> trying to reboot into the rt kernel, otherwise the akmod package will
>>>>> not be able to build the corresponding rpm.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Having done more and more searching, the Nouveau wiki states that I
>>>>>> should be using the 3.1 kernel or newer for this video card, or
>>> backport
>>>>>> the driver from that kernel. Any clue how to do this? Is it worth the
>>>>>> work?
>>>>>
>>>>> 3.1 was released _yesterday_ so it is unlikely to be available for
>>>>> distros for a while :-) The only recent rt patch for the 3.x series is
>>>>> for 3.0.7.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Should I just go to NVidia's site and pull their driver and
>>>>>> install it?
>>>>>
>>>>> That will not fix the problem with the rt patched kernels.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Fernando
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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