[PlanetCCRMA] Real-time kernel wont boot (F12 x64)

[G Foster]

Balls, I was really hoping Fedora would be an option on my Macbook,  
but reading this, I'm just going to get a black screen again because  
of my NVIDIA card aren't I.

Sigh indeed. Stuck with bloody OSX.

On 5 Dec 2009, at 21:13, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 14:22 -0500, udutronik Tronik wrote:
>> OK... thanks fernando for your help.. here is more info
>>
>> - Yes the Fedora Kernel does boot fine
>> - I have an Nvidia graphic card. I did not install the Nvidia driver
>> as the "Nouveau" driver which is there by default and seems to handle
>> the card ok
>
> Well, I would have to check but I think some of the patches I'm forced
> to omit deal with the nouveau driver (that would explain the  
> behavior).
> Sigh. I'm denying reality and refusing to even look at trying to make
> them patch, I imagine that's not going to be easy, and a moving
> target :-)
>
>> - adding the "nomodeset" didnt work
>
> Too bad...
>
>> I'll try to remove rhgb quiet and see what comes up
>
> Sorry...
>
> It may be that the normal Fedora kernel is good enough for the kind of
> work you do.
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
>> 2009/12/5 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu>
>>        On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 13:15 -0500, udutronik Tronik wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I've installed ccrma's rt-kernel on fedora 12 (x64) and I
>>        cannot get
>>> to boot with it
>>>
>>> - I have no graphical boot (just the blue progression line
>>        on a black
>>> screen)
>>> - I never even get to GDM or console login....
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>        Also... I take it that Fedora's kernels do boot fine, in which
>>        case it
>>        must be one of the many graphics card related patches that
>>        Fedora
>>        include that do not patch cleanly on top of the rt patches (so
>>        they
>>        don't make it into my rt kernel builds - I have not even tried
>>        to modify
>>        them to patch).
>>
>
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