[PlanetCCRMA] CCRMA Video Issue

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Mon Jan 9 17:11:24 PST 2012


On 01/09/2012 02:25 PM, Gareth Foster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About this email trail below, is this still the case on F16? Can I
> install a patched version of the NVIDIA driver from CCRMA that will
> work?
>
> I'd love to use the open source drivers, but they turn Macbooks into
> George Fornby grills :(

:-<

AFAIK the situation has not changed. The rt patch for 3.x.x disables a 
few internal symbols for non-GPL software and then the Nvidia driver 
can't work. I have not heard of workarounds (save for building a kernel 
with the needed patch that turns those symbols back into what they were 
before).

Of course running a normal Fedora kernel should not be a problem if you 
have rpmfusion enabled.

-- Fernando

> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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