<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>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.<br><br>Also, one (hopefully) simple question. Since I'm running in 64 bit mode, the repository I used was <br><br><small><tt>http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/14/x86_64/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc14.ccrma.noarch.rpm</tt></small><br><br>rather than <br><small><tt>http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/14/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc14.ccrma.noarch.rpm<br><br>Was this a mistake?<br></tt></small><br>Thank you again!<br>Bob<br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU><br><b>To: </b>"Bob Wilkinson" <wilkinson.bob@comcast.net><br><b>Cc: </b>planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:55:31 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue<br><br>On 10/25/2011 05:50 AM, Bob Wilkinson wrote:<br>> Everyone,<br>><br>> I now am at a loss.<br>><br>> I just bought a new video card for my PC, based on the NVidia GeForce<br>> GT520, and installed it. I wanted to use the Nouveau drivers, as they<br>> worked perfectly on my older PC that died. I installed FC14 64 bit LXDE<br>> spin, and updated to the latest version of everything, and the Nouveau<br>> driver did not recognize that I had two monitors attached. After playing<br>> with it for more hours than I would care to count, I gave up and tried<br>> the RPMFusion akmod nvidia drivers.<br>><br>> Success! I got both screens working. They aren't as nice as the Nouveau<br>> method, but they work. I then installed the RT kernel, and that's where<br>> the trouble started. X simply wouldn't boot. Nothing - nada. I booted<br>> back into the production Fedora kernel, and removed the RT kernel. I<br>> then removed the akmod NVidia driver. I reinstalled the RT kernel, and X<br>> started - albeit with only one screen.<br><br>The rt kernel needs a patched version of the akmod package, the standard <br>one from rpmfusion will not build on rt patched kernels. An akmod <br>package is available from the planetccrma-testing repository. You also <br>have to make sure you have the kernel-*-devel package installed before <br>trying to reboot into the rt kernel, otherwise the akmod package will <br>not be able to build the corresponding rpm.<br><br>> Having done more and more searching, the Nouveau wiki states that I<br>> should be using the 3.1 kernel or newer for this video card, or backport<br>> the driver from that kernel. Any clue how to do this? Is it worth the<br>> work?<br><br>3.1 was released _yesterday_ so it is unlikely to be available for <br>distros for a while :-) The only recent rt patch for the 3.x series is <br>for 3.0.7.<br><br>> Should I just go to NVidia's site and pull their driver and<br>> install it?<br><br>That will not fix the problem with the rt patched kernels.<br><br>-- Fernando<br></div></body></html>