I've got a couple of boxes running F14 and I thought I'd play with a 2.6.39 kernel. I currently run 2.6.38.4 on both, so I do know how to build a kernel. I tried my working 2.6.38 kernel config files and the latest Fedora kernel configs as starting points.
Long story short, I can't get any video out of either box. One has a radeon card and the other has nvidia. The system boots, and I can ssh in, but no pretty pictures.
I'm stuck. Any hints will be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
On 04/27/2011 10:36 PM, john wendel wrote:
I've got a couple of boxes running F14 and I thought I'd play with a 2.6.39 kernel. I currently run 2.6.38.4 on both, so I do know how to build a kernel. I tried my working 2.6.38 kernel config files and the latest Fedora kernel configs as starting points.
Long story short, I can't get any video out of either box. One has a radeon card and the other has nvidia. The system boots, and I can ssh in, but no pretty pictures.
I'm stuck. Any hints will be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
I have a lenovo t61p laptop with nvidia quadro fx 570M - i'll try building a 2.6.39 kernel and let you know how it goes for me ... you could also try the f16 one on koji.
When you say 'video' .. do you mean your display is non-functional using nouveau (for nvidia one) ?
What errors do you get in the x11 log ?
gene/
On 04/27/2011 10:43 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 04/27/2011 10:36 PM, john wendel wrote:
I've got a couple of boxes running F14 and I thought I'd play with a 2.6.39 kernel. I currently run 2.6.38.4 on both, so I do know how to
Working fine for me on t61p laptop with nividia ..
I built using Fedora tools (rather than direct from upstream)
Specifically:
Make sure you have the usual tools:
(i) As root:
yum install yum-utils rpmdevtools
(ii) Set up build tree (as user)
rpmdev-setuptree
(iii) download src rpm from koji (fix wrapped lines below)
cd ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS
wget http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.39/0.rc5.git0.0.fc16/s...
(iii) get any deps - need root for this.
su -c 'yum-builddep kernel-2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc16.src.rpm'
(iv) install source:
rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc16.src.rpm
(v) Build it:
cd ../SPECS
rpmbuild -bb --without debug \ --without debuginfo --target=$(uname -m) \ kernel.spec
(vi) Install rpms :
cd ~/rpmuild/RPMS/<arch>
etc ..
gene/
On 04/27/2011 10:43 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 04/27/2011 10:36 PM, john wendel wrote:
Long story short, I can't get any video out of either box. One has a radeon card and the other has nvidia. The system boots, and I can ssh in, but no pretty pictures.
Can you clarify what you mean by 'no pretty pictures' - are you referring to the screen while it is booting or something else ?
On 04/28/2011 05:59 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 04/27/2011 10:43 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 04/27/2011 10:36 PM, john wendel wrote:
Long story short, I can't get any video out of either box. One has a radeon card and the other has nvidia. The system boots, and I can ssh in, but no pretty pictures.
Can you clarify what you mean by 'no pretty pictures' - are you referring to the screen while it is booting or something else ?
Sorry to be unclear. No video at any time, black screen.
Regards,
John
On 04/28/2011 09:31 AM, john wendel wrote:
You may need to remove the quiet option in grub to get more verbose logging.
The koji rebuilt one has been running fine with as yet no observable problems that I have seen ... and auto sched is as wonderful as ever!!
[I have not tested hibernate resume]
gene/
On 04/28/2011 08:50 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 04/28/2011 09:31 AM, john wendel wrote:
Sorry to be unclear. No video at any time, black screen.
Is there anything interesting in the boot log ?
Thanks for the interest. I found the problem. Looks like a dependency checking/build bug in make menuconfig. I finally checked the build output and it's warning about unresolved dependencies, don't have the output here, but it's something about LCD modules and IOMEM.
I finally got some output when booting with "nomodeset" (VGA console), but X crashes in this mode.
I think once I get the proper modules built, things will work.
Regards,
John
On 04/28/2011 11:12 PM, john wendel wrote: anks for the interest. I found the problem. Looks like a dependency
checking/build bug in make menuconfig. I finally checked the build output and it's warning about unresolved dependencies, don't have the output here, but it's something about LCD modules and IOMEM.
I finally got some output when booting with "nomodeset" (VGA console), but X crashes in this mode.
I think once I get the proper modules built, things will work.
Ok good luck ..
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Genes MailLists lists@sapience.com wrote:
On 04/27/2011 10:43 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 04/27/2011 10:36 PM, john wendel wrote:
I've got a couple of boxes running F14 and I thought I'd play with a 2.6.39 kernel. I currently run 2.6.38.4 on both, so I do know how to
Working fine for me on t61p laptop with nividia ..
I built using Fedora tools (rather than direct from upstream)
Specifically:
Make sure you have the usual tools:
(i) As root:
yum install yum-utils rpmdevtools
(ii) Set up build tree (as user)
rpmdev-setuptree
(iii) download src rpm from koji (fix wrapped lines below)
cd ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS
wget http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.39/0.rc5.git0.0.fc16/s...
(iii) get any deps - need root for this.
su -c 'yum-builddep kernel-2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc16.src.rpm'
(iv) install source:
rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc16.src.rpm
(v) Build it:
cd ../SPECS
rpmbuild -bb --without debug \ --without debuginfo --target=$(uname -m) \ kernel.spec
(vi) Install rpms :
cd ~/rpmuild/RPMS/<arch>
etc ..
gene/
Thank you for those very clear steps to build the kernel from source. I used these steps to build the same kernel (built as 2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc14.i686.PAE, with associated kernel-PAE-devel, kernel-headers and perf rpms) on my f14 laptop. The build needed about 8GiB of available hard drive space and took about an hour and 20 minutes on this core duo machine.
This is a Dell laptop with nvidia graphics and this kernel works beautifully for me - I am using the newly built kernel as I type - and have no problems on this hardware at all.
Shame that there are no test builds available for updates-testing for the same version! This looks like a lovely kernel and way snappier than the current f14 kernel in updates.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloaked@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for those very clear steps to build the kernel from source. I used these steps to build the same kernel (built as 2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc14.i686.PAE, with associated kernel-PAE-devel, kernel-headers and perf rpms) on my f14 laptop. The build needed about 8GiB of available hard drive space and took about an hour and 20 minutes on this core duo machine.
This is a Dell laptop with nvidia graphics and this kernel works beautifully for me - I am using the newly built kernel as I type - and have no problems on this hardware at all.
Shame that there are no test builds available for updates-testing for the same version! This looks like a lovely kernel and way snappier than the current f14 kernel in updates.
Hmm - I have now had a chance to run this kernel for a while and I do have some problems with it - I am getting some loss of dns at random - and getting kernel panics which are locking up X - so I guess I need to test more and perhaps look at building the next available kernel source when it comes out....
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:32 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloaked@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloaked@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for those very clear steps to build the kernel from source. I used these steps to build the same kernel (built as 2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc14.i686.PAE, with associated kernel-PAE-devel, kernel-headers and perf rpms) on my f14 laptop. The build needed about 8GiB of available hard drive space and took about an hour and 20 minutes on this core duo machine.
This is a Dell laptop with nvidia graphics and this kernel works beautifully for me - I am using the newly built kernel as I type - and have no problems on this hardware at all.
Shame that there are no test builds available for updates-testing for the same version! This looks like a lovely kernel and way snappier than the current f14 kernel in updates.
Hmm - I have now had a chance to run this kernel for a while and I do have some problems with it - I am getting some loss of dns at random - and getting kernel panics which are locking up X - so I guess I need to test more and perhaps look at building the next available kernel source when it comes out....
On further investigation it turned out that it was not DNS (I do lookups on another machine in the LAN) but in fact wireless network flakiness -
Oh well - more work to do but definitely worth looking at this kernel for running in f14.
If you are using the proprietary drivers you have to re-compile them for your kernel.
On Apr 27, 2011, at 10:36 PM, john wendel jwendel10@comcast.net wrote:
I've got a couple of boxes running F14 and I thought I'd play with a 2.6.39 kernel. I currently run 2.6.38.4 on both, so I do know how to build a kernel. I tried my working 2.6.38 kernel config files and the latest Fedora kernel configs as starting points.
Long story short, I can't get any video out of either box. One has a radeon card and the other has nvidia. The system boots, and I can ssh in, but no pretty pictures.
I'm stuck. Any hints will be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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On 04/30/2011 10:49 AM, Derek Tracy wrote:
If you are using the proprietary drivers you have to re-compile them for your kernel.
No prop drivers here - none needed.
I too under heavy network load triggered a network hang.
Restarting networking got it going again - never seen this problem with 2.6.38.x
Intel 4965 here.
gene
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Derek Tracy tracyde@gmail.com wrote:
If you are using the proprietary drivers you have to re-compile them for your kernel.
No proprietary drivers - all stock Fedora.