[PlanetCCRMA] x fails to start with real-time kernel

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On 05/03/2011 02:00 PM, craig stephenson wrote:
> I tried again, first adding nouveau.modeset=0 to the grub.conf entry,
> and then adding vmalloc=512M.  No luck.  I did notice the message
> "Ignoring nvidia-kmod as it failed earlier".  Overall the same result
> as earlier, with "module nvidia not found".

What errors do you see in /var/log/messages?
Maybe the binary akmod is not being created on boot?

Try booting without the "rghb quiet" part of the kernel boot line to see 
all the progress reports that happen during the boot process.

Do an "rpm -q -a |grep nvidia", you should see "kmod-nvidia" packages 
for all kernels you want to boot. If there is one missing for the kernel 
you want to boot you want to see why the build failed, I think there 
will be messages in the logs.

-- Fernando


> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:14 PM, craig stephenson
> <craigstep888 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> My akmod package is 1:260.19.36-1.fc14.ccrma.1.1.  Kernel is
>> 2.6.33.12-149.rt31.1.fc14.ccrma.x86_64.rt
>> I don't remember errors about akmod specifically, but I could have
>> missed it.  I do have kernel-rt-devel installed.   I have
>> rdblacklist=nouveau in my grub.conf entry but not nouveau.modeset=0 or
>> vmalloc=512M.  I'll add them and try again.
>>   Dale- could you send the link for your Fedora Forum post?  I'd like
>> to chime in there if I end up with anything intelligent to say, in the
>> interest of future Googlers.  I ran across a couple threads there with
>> replies like "why do you need this kernel anyway" and "this is not an
>> official kernel- go bother ccrma about it..."
>>   Thanks for the replies.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
>> <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu>  wrote:
>>> On 05/02/2011 11:35 PM, craig stephenson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Hello all.  I recently installed the real-time kernel  for Fedora 14
>>>> 64-bit (although not the latest one announced today), and I ran into a
>>>> problem that I'm sure is all too familiar to you.  I have the
>>>> closed-source nvidia driver installed, and when I booted with the rt
>>>> kernel I got the error "Failed to load module "nvidia"
>>>> (module-specific error, 0) no drivers available".   I've installed the
>>>> CCRMA akmod-nvidia and kernel-rt-devel packages, but am still unable
>>>> to boot into x.
>>>
>>> (do you get an error about the akmod package while you boot? make sure you
>>> have the kernel-rt-devel - or kernel-rtPAE-devel on i386 if you have the PAE
>>> kernel - package installed)
>>>
>>> This is probably the nouveau kernel driver interfering with the nvidia
>>> driver (ie: the open source, reverse engineered nouveau driver loads on boot
>>> and as it is using the nvidia chip and resources makes it impossible to
>>> later load the nvidia kernel module).
>>>
>>> You need to add this to the kernel boot line in /boot/grub/grub.conf:
>>>
>>> ----
>>> nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
>>> ----
>>>
>>> You may also need this (I do need it in my Fedora 13 laptop with the nvidia
>>> driver):
>>>
>>> ----
>>> vmalloc=512M
>>> ----
>>>
>>> Could you try this and report back?
>>> -- Fernando