On Sunday 08 April 2007, Ric Moore wrote: >On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 14:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 07 April 2007, Ric Moore wrote: >> >On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 10:26 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >> >> The Livna mailing list threads that you referenced show a >> >> completely different failure than what was originally reported in >> >> this thread. And just because there are SELinux problems with the >> >> Livna NVIDIA driver RPMs doesn't mean that the same problem exists >> >> in the official NVIDIA driver packages. >> > >> >I have to concur with Lonni. I was having all kinds of libGL problems >> >which were fixed by switching to the "official" nVidia driver. I'm no >> >hardware guru, by any stretch of the imagination, but my problem is >> >fixed. Ric >> >> I have to agree with Ric here. I never did get dkmk or whatever its >> called to work even though I did ask for directions here, so I've been >> doing the official nvidia way, from their latest linux 9755 build. No >> detectable errors, none, nada, it just works. What it is, is a PITA >> to have to do it everytime I boot a different kernel, which may be 5 >> or 6 times a day. But that's my choice as I play the role of the >> canary. As for fighting with selinux, nope, disabled, end of >> discussion. > >I notice a significant speed increase as well, at least about 25% or so >faster. The application I was using kept crapping out with all kinds of >GL errors and segfaults. I updated the kernel, the livna drivers and >devel for both. I've battled this for months, never suspecting that >something so cintegral as a video driver would be broken and stay broken >upgrade after upgrade. I've been patient and spun my wheels late into >many many nights for naught, which kinda jerks me off guys. I've >bothered the living Hell out of the Croquet folks, who spun their wheels >trying to see if it was their problem. I installed the nVidia official >driver as the last ditch intervention and that worked. What can I say... >I've installed at least 10 kernels and 10 kmod-nvidia upgrades through >this saga, starting around November of last year. During all of this, on >the Croquet mail list, people using Linux were reporting "working out of >the box"! I felt like a piece of ham. As you know, I test kernels for a hobby, and one of the biggest PITA's ever is continually re-installing the nvidia driver since my kernel maker/installer script copies everything already installed from that version in /boot and /lib/modules to a .old version in case things go aglay. Its an easy revert that way if they do. But that also means I have to re-install the thing everytime I build a new kernel. Or for some reason reboot to a known good kernel that's already had it installed once, but nvidia in their paranoia somehow manages to kill it if a different kernel has been booted since that one was. Now, I won't say that this is the be-all and end-all of this, but a one liner in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local script near the bottom that reads: /root/bin/install-nvidia calls the script below and installs the driver & runs a depmod to fix everything, all in a second or less. To use this, after the driver has been installed: #> cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko /nvidia.ko The script, save it wherever but /root/bin I'd already stuffed with lots of other handy things and installed it in my $PATH so it was as handy as any. After saving it, set the exec bit with a "chmod +x /root/bin/install-nvidia" --------cut here----- #!/bin/bash # this script should install the nvidia module and # run a depmod -a `uname -r` IF the module is missing. # a test deletion to check the opposite logic # rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko if [ -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then echo nvidia.ko modules is already installed exit 0 else echo copying nvidia.ko into kernel modules tree # move this file someplace out of sight if paranoid about stuff in / cp /nvidia.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko echo running a depmod -a `uname -r` depmod -a `uname -r` fi if [ -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then echo nvidia.ko driver sucessfully installed else echo install of nvidia.ko driver failed fi -----to here-------- Have fun till it really does need a rebuild or a new driver is out, this saves me about 2 or 3 minutes per reboot, and a heck of a lot of wear and tear on the return key. I can go get some caffeine while its booting. Legal according to nvidia? DamnedifIknow. Send me a C&D letter if you care. Humm, sitting here, it comes to me that this would also work as /etc/rc(runlevel).d/S97install-nvidia if it simply returned OK|FAIL, but I'm lazy & this works for me. -- 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) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones
