--- On Sun, 4/5/09, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: kernel vs kernel-PAE? why yum install kernel does not install kernel-PAE automatically? > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 1:28 PM > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ > 2.40GHz > > That's a 64-bit CPU, you should be running 64-bit > Fedora rather than 32-bit > Fedora on it. Did not know that :(, thought that only regular x86_32 instead of x86_64 was what I needed. On other machines at home which have AMD 64 processor, I installed the x86_64 versions of Fedora either Fedora 10 or rawhide. > > > I also want to know if I get nvidia driver, how does > it fare with PAE > > kernels? > > As far as I know no better or no worse than with non-PAE > kernels, you just > need to make sure you use the -PAE variant of the kmod. > > > [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your > video card available. > > [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support > and read > > [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv! > > [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other > (non-xv) video out drivers. > > [VO_XV] Try -vo x11. > > > > .., I have asked for a bit of help and they recommend > that I get nvidia > > driver, I have not used nvidia drivers since Fedora > Core 4, but I got good > > performance back then might help now? > > You may want to try the "nouveau" driver, it has > some 2D acceleration > support. "nouveau" will replace "nv" as > the default for NVidia hardware in > Fedora 11. nouveau driver was the default but it did not cut it, mplayer would complain that the machine was too slow to play it :(, and I also got a kernel panic :( to top that off. > > Kevin Kofler > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines I have installed the nvidia driver via rpmfusion and all my video troubles are gone, no more CPU problems. I have installed the PAE kernel and all is well. Thanks to you and Kam for your advice. All is well. Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
