Am Donnerstag, den 17.02.2005, 09:03 -0500 schrieb Frank: > I've tried each new kernel that has come out since 681, with the same > result. With a 2.6.10 kernel and the nvidia drivers installed, my > system boots to a black screen and a dead keyboard when it goes > graphical. What said the X-Log ? Are Errors logged ? Changed xorg.conf ? Drivers compiled fine without errors ? What is your Bios set on AGP/GFX Memory ? > This is true on both 32 and 64 bit FC3, and this morning I > tried the latest kernel with the driver patches mentioned here: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=42964 , with the same > result. > The result of segfault after patching ? I have installed vanilla kernels for years, and all went fine, excluding all changes made by the redhat or fedora kernel hackers :(.. Thewhile things got changed on Fedora so i very like to use the supported Kernel and the solution to recompile it with your own setup is discribed in the FC3 release notes. There is no kernelsource rpm anymore, as it was known in the past. Instead you have to install the kernel.src.rpm and deal with the spec file, to recompile it. This method runs perfectly here, as i need NTFS-Support all the time on one Machine. > > I don't care about 3D performance, but I do care about dual headed > operation, and it seems that I need the vendor proprietary drivers to > get that. So I'm stuck there. > Nvidia Drivers compiles fine without! the kernelsource, in fact, i need the drivers only for 3D. I got no experience with Dualmonitoring, but i reply: you don`t need the Fedora Kernel Sourcecode, to recompile the Nvidia supported Drivers. The Vendor Proprietary drivers, is`nt it the normal Nvidia driver from theire Site ? Whats wrong with them ? The Blackscreen ? Do you got a blackscreen if you boot in runlevel 3, modprobe the driver and start X ? > > One of my systems now has a problem with USB mass storage devices, which > I use a lot. the first time I plug in a drive everything is fine, but > subsequently no device will be recognized and there are no messages in > /var/log/messages. This worked just fine a couple months ago, so I'm > guessing that something that needs the new kernels was installed, and I > can't run the new kernels. > Read the Fedora release notes about kernel handling on Fedora. The release notes are no stupid phrasing, they are high gained instructions and hints > > So at the monent, I can't run both a graphical interface and USB > devices. What a mess. I'm starting to feel that FC3 is a bit too > bleeding edge if I want to spend my time using rather than fixing my > machines. ya, its hard, to bring new technologies from the community to a stable release by the community. For me, as i use RedHat since 5.0, the changes in the past on FC were heavy and often i feel with you, spending my time for fixing than for producing. Btw., for much more fun use the FC-Test repositories :).. > > This particular machine is an Asus A8V with an Nvidia GeForce 6600 dual > DVI card, running 32 bit FC3 (on an AMD64 processor). Are other people > having these problems? Can anyone suggest how I might recover from this > situation? well, thats more or less top actual hardware, soo new, that there is not really a 64Bit MS-Windows out. That shows, that this technologies are so new, that the development and test phases at the high commercial microsoft development laboratories has not endet yet. You should install FC3-64, understand the kernel recompiling from src.rpm (release notes), update fine and do not use vanilla software for system components like kernel, glibc or so. The recompile procedure works for any src.rpm - the way to rebuild your system components.
