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

[Paul Vallee]

Hi all,

First of all, thanks for your help Matt, Juan and Hector. I couldn't have
done it without you. I tried following Matt's instructions but ran into a
roadblock when I discovered that the spec file had changed and I couldn't
edit it properly to get the desired result. Then I stumbled upon the
rpmfusion site and realized that we are now in the world of kmod "2.0".  No
more fiddling with the spec file. Just add a couple of prameters to the
rpmbuild command line and kmodtool does the rest.

I followed the instructions here:

http://rpmfusion.org/Packaging/KernelModules/Kmods2#head-a6ef94d0e888ea41a2335d30fe7da26814e23f8f

and the nvidia driver installed on the planetccrma kernel without incident.
Nice!

When I rebooted, however, I was still having the same problems with extra
characters being emitted when I press keys on the keyboard, erratic mouse
behavior and Xwindows freezing eventually. I did a little more research and
decided to try out the latest testing kernel from planetccrma. Good
decision. I installed it, then installed the nvidia kernel module again for
the new kernel and was pleasantly surprised to find out that I now had a
working system with none of the problems described above. Good response, no
perceivable delays in X.

Thanks again, all. I've been struggling with this for about a week and it's
such a good feeling to finally be at this stage of the process.

Next, I installed the planetccrma-apps package. Now I have a new problem.
JACK. It seems to start up when needed, but then exits immediately with
status 1. I will do some more research and see if I can get it working on my
own. If I can't though, I'm wondering if I should continue bleating about it
in this topic or start a new topic for the JACK problem?

Paul

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Juan,
>
> Terrific news.  Thanks for the info -- I'm sorry I missed your
> february post.  Note that my method still works for Fedora 7 - I
> suppose I should not have assumed that things hadn't changed for 8.
> This change is for the better, though, and makes the drivers a lot
> more flexible.  If you're running 8, could you take a look and see
> what happens if you try to compile the fglrx drivers using the same
> method?  I'll get to it later this week, but I'm anxious to know...
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Juan I Reyes
> <juanig at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Sorry for getting so late to this post. I used your instructions for
> > kmod-nvidia for a while, but on F8 I could not use them anymore (thanks
> > a lot). I sent a post to PlanetCCRMA last February with the procedure I
> > am using now:
> >
> >
> http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2008-February/014423.html
> >
> > Looks like Livna is using RPM Fusion in order to facilitate KMOD
> > compilation in different Kernels.
> >
> > Once I have the KMOD SRPM,  All I have to do is to compile kmod-nvidia
> > module for a ccrma rt kernel as:
> >
> > 'rpmbuild -ba --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target i686 \
> > nvidia-kmod.spec'
> >
> >  --* Juan
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 11:35 -0400, Matt Barber wrote:
> >> By the way,
> >>
> >> After you install the kmod-nvidia package, you might have trouble with
> >>  yum update   when there's a fedora kernel update, since it will try
> >> to update to the new one rather than install the new one (I think this
> >> causes a dependency conflict because kernels are installonly by
> >> default in yum, but updating tries to take away the old kmod-nvidia
> >> package - again, someone who knows yum better please advise).
> >>
> >> I am thinking you can fix this by adding "kmod-nvidia" to an
> >> installonlypkgs line in yum.conf -- or if you don't want to do that,
> >> if you get an error from   yum update   saying you have dependency
> >> issues involving  kmod-nvidia  I have found success by running
> >>
> >> yum install kernel kmod-nvidia
> >>
> >> first before running yum update.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Matt
> >
> >
> >
>



-- 
Kind Regards,

Paul Vallee
pv.vallee at gmail.com

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