[PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue

[Bob Wilkinson]

Thank you again. I hope you truly understand how much we appreciate all the time you put into this. 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> 
To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU 
Cc: "Bob Wilkinson" <wilkinson.bob at comcast.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:35:21 PM 
Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue 

On 10/25/2011 03:39 PM, Bob Wilkinson wrote: 
> I attempted to install the CCRMA akmod package. With the RPMFusion 
> repository active, I could not see the ccrma-testing version. So, I 
> disabled RPMFusion. Then I was able to see the ccrma-testing version, 
> and tried to install. I got the following error: 
> 
> 18:32:36 : ERROR: Dependency resolving completed with errors 
> 18:32:36 : ERROR: Package: 
> 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-275.09.07-1.fc14.ccrma.x86_64 (planetcore-testing) 
> Requires: nvidia-settings 
> 18:32:36 : ERROR: Package: 
> 1:akmod-nvidia-275.09.07-1.fc14.ccrma.2.x86_64 (planetcore-testing) 
> Requires: akmods 
> 18:32:36 : ERROR: Package: 
> 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-275.09.07-1.fc14.ccrma.x86_64 (planetcore-testing) 
> Requires: nvidia-xconfig 

Hmmm, you need the rpmfusion repos. I'll have to look at this tomorrow, 
maybe there is a newer version that was release in rpmfusion and I have 
to update the one in planetcore-testing. Sorry, it is hard to keep 
up.... :-( 

-- Fernando 


> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> *From: *"Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> 
> *To: *planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU 
> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:06:03 PM 
> *Subject: *Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue 
> 
> On 10/25/2011 10:09 AM, Bob Wilkinson wrote: 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> Also, one (hopefully) simple question. Since I'm running in 64 bit mode, 
>> the repository I used was 
>> 
>> 
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/14/x86_64/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc14.ccrma.noarch.rpm 
>> 
>> rather than 
>> 
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/14/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc14.ccrma.noarch.rpm 
>> 
>> Was this a mistake? 
> 
> Hmmm, as far as I can remember both will point to the correct 
> architecture (as the architecture is not hardwired in the .repo files, 
> it comes from yum itself. 
> 
> -- Fernando 
> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>> *From: *"Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> 
>> *To: *"Bob Wilkinson" <wilkinson.bob at comcast.net> 
>> *Cc: *planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU 
>> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:55:31 PM 
>> *Subject: *Re: [PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue 
>> 
>> On 10/25/2011 05:50 AM, Bob Wilkinson wrote: 
>> > Everyone, 
>> > 
>> > I now am at a loss. 
>> > 
>> > I just bought a new video card for my PC, based on the NVidia GeForce 
>> > GT520, and installed it. I wanted to use the Nouveau drivers, as they 
>> > worked perfectly on my older PC that died. I installed FC14 64 bit LXDE 
>> > spin, and updated to the latest version of everything, and the Nouveau 
>> > driver did not recognize that I had two monitors attached. After playing 
>> > with it for more hours than I would care to count, I gave up and tried 
>> > the RPMFusion akmod nvidia drivers. 
>> > 
>> > Success! I got both screens working. They aren't as nice as the Nouveau 
>> > method, but they work. I then installed the RT kernel, and that's where 
>> > the trouble started. X simply wouldn't boot. Nothing - nada. I booted 
>> > back into the production Fedora kernel, and removed the RT kernel. I 
>> > then removed the akmod NVidia driver. I reinstalled the RT kernel, and X 
>> > started - albeit with only one screen. 
>> 
>> The rt kernel needs a patched version of the akmod package, the standard 
>> one from rpmfusion will not build on rt patched kernels. An akmod 
>> package is available from the planetccrma-testing repository. You also 
>> have to make sure you have the kernel-*-devel package installed before 
>> trying to reboot into the rt kernel, otherwise the akmod package will 
>> not be able to build the corresponding rpm. 
>> 
>> > Having done more and more searching, the Nouveau wiki states that I 
>> > should be using the 3.1 kernel or newer for this video card, or backport 
>> > the driver from that kernel. Any clue how to do this? Is it worth the 
>> > work? 
>> 
>> 3.1 was released _yesterday_ so it is unlikely to be available for 
>> distros for a while :-) The only recent rt patch for the 3.x series is 
>> for 3.0.7. 
>> 
>> > Should I just go to NVidia's site and pull their driver and 
>> > install it? 
>> 
>> That will not fix the problem with the rt patched kernels. 
>> 
>> -- Fernando 
>> 
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