[PlanetCCRMA] Re: 2.6.7 ccrma kernel and usb / nvidia support

[Rick B]

Shayne O'Connor wrote:

>ok, well i'd decided to download the fedora core 1 ccrma distribution,
>but discovered most of the iso's were corrupted (you might want to check
>their integrity - though it's probly just my incompetence that let to
>their corruption), so i was a bit defeated by that, and just decided to
>stick with standard fedora core 2 2.6.5 kernel. but i kept the ccrma one
>on there, just in case i got the guts to screw around with it again.
>
>which i did ... and for some reason, the nvidia driver compiled against
>the 2.6.7 kernel - booting into it, it showed the nvidia splash screen,
>and instead of freezing, continued to boot! in disbelief, i plugged in
>my zen touch to the usb, fired up gnomad2, and lo and behold, it was
>detected, and could scan the songs on the player, and also transfer
>songs to it!!! everything was working perfectly!!!!
>
>then, for no reason at all, i one day booted into the ccrma kernel
>(which was, by now the default) and ... it froze again, just after the
>nvidia splash screen, where it says "Setting hostname". Grrrr. So I
>reinstalled everything again, thinking "freakin 3D acceleration! who
>needs it?!". i mean, it would be nice, but i don't really need it - so
>that's not the issue, anymore really.
>
>after reinstallation, i tried to connect my zen touch with gnomad2 -
>once again, i got the "no jukeboxes found on usb bus". grrr. so i
>thought "ah, well - at least i can boot into the 2.6.5 kernel and it
>works". so i did that. but a bit later, i decided to try plugging it in
>again - and it worked!!! god knows why ... 
>
>... then nvidia updated their driver, and i thought "hmmm, maybe this
>one won't freeze my computer" - but, of course, it did ... and after
>uninstalling it  .... "NO JUKEBOXES FOUND ON USB BUS"!!!!!!!!!
>
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>
>i'm happy with the 2.6.7 kernel and the audio applications i'm now able
>to use with it - it's been a long struggle to get here.
>
>i can do without 3d acceleration - i accept this now, and ain't even
>going to bother, no matter how compatible the drivers get.
>
>i CAN'T do without the usb access to my creative zen touch - obviously
>it CAN work on the 2.6.7 kernel, but only in what (to me) seem totally
>arbitrary conditions.
>
>Fernando - i don't know how to get any other error message than the one
>that gnomad2 gives "No jukeboxes found on USB bus" ... as they say "i'm
>totally new to Linux" ... could you point me to the shell commands i'd
>have to type to get diagnostic information of the sort that would help
>to solve why 2.6.7 is not recognising my device? as i said before, if i
>boot up the default 2.6.5 kernel - it detects the creative zen touch
>perfectly ...
>
>please help
>
>shayne
>
>
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>>On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:27, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
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>>>but blast! of course this success broke some other very important things
>>>- libnjb (library for creative nomad jukeboxe support) and nvidia 3d
>>>capabilities. when i fire up gnomad2 (front-end for libnjb) it says it
>>>can't find anything on the usb bus, but if i switch back to the stock
>>>fedora core 2 2.6.5 kernel, it works fine. is the newer kernel blocking
>>>user access to usb bus?
>>>      
>>>
>>Not that I'm aware of. Could you send the exact messages you are seeing?
>>
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>>>when i installed the nvidia driver and changed the xorg.conf, every time
>>>i reboot the computer freezes just after booting the kernel image. i've
>>>read about the 2.6.7 kernel having 4-stacks or something option that
>>>kills nvidia driver - i've searched atrpm's for a kernel-module, but
>>>there is none for this version of the kernel.
>>>      
>>>
>>I think the latest nvidia drivers work with 4k stacks in 2.6.x kernels.
>>Are you using the latest version? I seem to remember somebody on the
>>list saying that they had managed to get it working. 
>>
>>-- Fernando
>>    
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    Sounds like it might be problems with the ethernet/modem interface 
if it's freezing while setting the hostname. Look in your bootlog.  
Click on the little foot in the bottom left corner of the screen then go 
to "system tools" then click on "system logs" and look for errors or 
warnings. You can also check the Xorg logs from there. I'm confused , 
are you using the 2.6.7 kernel on FC1 or FC2 ? If your using the 2.6 
kernel on FC1 that might cause some problems. As far as the Nvidia 
drivers go I've never had a problem on FC1 or FC2 until the 6111 drivers 
came out. On FC1 I had to install the 5336 driver first and then update 
to the 6111 driver to get  6111 to work right, otherwise I would get 
errors when gaming, but it would still boot fine. With FC2 I still can't 
get the 6629 driver to work on the  2.6.8.1-1.520.1vR9.ll.rhfc2.ccrma 
kernel. This is on a GF4 Ti4600.

                     Rick B