On Friday 15 July 2005 00:46, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Dave Jones wrote: >> >On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:41:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > > The real question seems to me, how did this new kernel get >> > > past testing if it won't even boot? Thats now >> > > vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4, the matching initrd, System.map >> > > etc. The .1-1369 seems to be ok if I don't want to run X. >> > >> >The revelation this week seems to be that the livna nvidia rpm >> > broke modprobe.conf on a number of installations. Did you have >> > this installed by any chance ? >> >> What would be the full name of that rpm? There is not a livna >> entry in any of the files in /etc/yum.repos.d if that helps. They >> are exactly as installed. >> >> This is an nvidia card, a 5200 something with 128 megs of ram. >> From an lspci: >> >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 >> [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) > >That's almost the same one I have on my notebook: > >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce > FX Go5200] (rev a1) > >I am currently using these 2 nvidia kernel-modules on this notebook: >kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4-1.0.7174-0.lvn.4.4 >kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-1.0.7174-0.lvn.4.4 > >[Two kernels installed in parallel because of >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16234 >which also hits me on this notebook.] > >> I posted a verbatum copy of the screen in a previous message, the >> error is output immediately after the 'booting the kernel' >> message. The language is a bit obtuse, but I believe its because >> it cannot find the hard drive(s) once the vmlinuz file is loaded >> and the exec begun. Something about unknown_*****(0,0) to be >> inexact. > >Dave could be right, initrd is a hot candidate for the origin of > your problems. > >Besides this, I would suspect you to suffer from the same issue I > have with this NVidia chip: > It doesn't work with xorg's "nv" driver, it only works with the >"nvidia" driver. So, X not coming up with 1390_FC4 also could be an >indication of X not finding the nvidia kernel module corresponding > to this kernel. > >rpm -qa 'kernel-*' >should tell you if you have installed it. > >Ralf The point is moot now Ralf, I've installed bdi-4.20 over /dev/hda. FC4 was a grand experiment spread out over a couple of weeks that I won't repeat soon if ever. And I do think I gave it the old college try. The debian based install for running emc in realtime Just Works(TM). Now I have to finish building the psu and driver box for the mill, and finish up the motor mounts for the mill. Another week is all if I can find some usable & affordable ball bearings with a 5/16" bore, about a 10 pack of them. I can machine everything else to fit. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
