[PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue

Tue Oct 25 20:14:42 PDT 2011

On 10/25/2011 07:22 PM, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> Thank you again. I hope you truly understand how much we appreciate all
> the time you put into this.

I just got the upgrade notice in my fc14 laptop, so this upgrade is very 
recent (just bad timing for you, I guess :-) I just built an upgrade by 
I probably won't be able to test till tomorrow.

-- Fernando

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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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