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From: Longfellow on 4 Apr 2010 15:59 On 2010-04-04, Mike Jones <luck(a)dasteem.invalid> wrote: > Just thinking sideways for a moment here, but I had some glitches with my > NVIDIA card, and eventually got pointed to a page on NVIDIA's site > documenting this (Linux kernel caused) glitch and the workaround(s). > > Have you looked at your driver-provider's site for similar problems to > your current one? (These things can be annnoyingly hard to find.) Interesting. I was thinking about simply installing an NVIDIA card, as I guessed that drivers would be easier to get, but not so, I gather. And I'm about to see if I can compile Intel's latest drivers; I'd expect deps to be "missing", and needful of updating. We'll see... Longfellow
From: Longfellow on 4 Apr 2010 17:02 On 2010-04-04, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote: > Longfellow <not(a)this.address> wrote: >> Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.21.5-smp/modules.dep >> Found /lib/modules/2.6.29.6-smp/modules.dep; why is it looking >> for the 2.6.21.5-smp file? > > How did you install Slackware 13.0? Did you add any precompiled packages > to your installation? If so, where did you get those packages? Nope, straight install, although will all packages. > Slackware 12.0 uses kernel 2.6.21.5, to me it seems as if you have mixed > up packages from different Slackware versions. Maybe you have failed in > your attempt to upgrade from 12.0 to 13.0? Mixing libraries and drivers > from different versions could also explain your problems to start X. Yes! Now that you mention it, I thought it looked familiar. What is interesting is that it was a clean installation in a new partition (logical drive), so there should not have been anything already there. What I did was download the .iso images of 13.0, something I've not done before; I've always 'mkisofs' before 'cdrecord'ing it to disk. How well aware am I of the danger of mixing libraries? Don't ask... ;) And I've never felt bad about blowing away an installation and starting over (something newbies do regularly whilst learning). I'll have to think about the next step; I definitely want an up-to-date OS. Suddenly I hear an echo in the distance: U-b-u-n-t-u!!! Nahh, I'm not that far gone... Longfellow
From: Mike Jones on 4 Apr 2010 19:16 Responding to Longfellow: > On 2010-04-04, Mike Jones <luck(a)dasteem.invalid> wrote: > >> Just thinking sideways for a moment here, but I had some glitches with >> my NVIDIA card, and eventually got pointed to a page on NVIDIA's site >> documenting this (Linux kernel caused) glitch and the workaround(s). >> >> Have you looked at your driver-provider's site for similar problems to >> your current one? (These things can be annnoyingly hard to find.) > > Interesting. I was thinking about simply installing an NVIDIA card, as > I guessed that drivers would be easier to get, but not so, I gather. And > I'm about to see if I can compile Intel's latest drivers; I'd expect > deps to be "missing", and needful of updating. We'll see... > > Longfellow The NVIDIA drivers are available. The trick is not to exceed the version for the card\chipset you have. For example, with the MOBO chipset I have (6150), the N*185 driver works fine under Slackware, but barfs with CentOS's graphics autosetup. Vectorlinux''s KDE-Classic also barfs in the same way, but if I do a VASM and install the older N*95 driver, everything is ok. While I have preferences for FOSS stuff, the NVIDIA drivers do seem to be pretty well documented and resourced. I'm thinking IBM wouldn't have missed providing appropriate support resources for their stuff either, but I'd bet its as buried as NVIDIA's stuff. :( -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 5 Apr 2010 06:04 Longfellow <not(a)this.address> wrote: > I'll have to think about the next step; I definitely want an up-to-date > OS. Suddenly I hear an echo in the distance: U-b-u-n-t-u!!! Nahh, I'm > not that far gone... So what is your next step? Trying to find out what is wrong with your current installation? Redoing the install from scratch and hoping for better luck next time? Switching distribution or version as indicated above? Switching graphics hardware as indicated in a post where nVidia was mentioned? regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: Longfellow on 6 Apr 2010 19:52
On 2010-04-05, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote: > Longfellow <not(a)this.address> wrote: >> I'll have to think about the next step; I definitely want an up-to-date >> OS. Suddenly I hear an echo in the distance: U-b-u-n-t-u!!! Nahh, I'm >> not that far gone... > > So what is your next step? Trying to find out what is wrong with your > current installation? Redoing the install from scratch and hoping for > better luck next time? Switching distribution or version as indicated > above? Switching graphics hardware as indicated in a post where nVidia was > mentioned? > > regards Henrik Well, I'm slowly but surely regaining a hint of *NIX chops. It's been so long since I've done any of this, I have forgotten more than I thought. It finally dawned on me that /boot contains the current configuration file for the kernel, and slogging through the kernel build was entirely unnecessary. The configuration file lists almost everything as a module, which is just fine. Thing is, 'lsmode' says nothing is inserted. Eventually, I recalled that modules need to be loaded early, before the root fs is mounted. Which requires an 'initrd', I think. So, as there is no initrd in /boot, (or is that the /etc/rc.d/initrd/functions file?), it looks like I need to make one. I can't read shell scripts like I once could, and don't particularly relish having to relearn everything again. In addition, there is no instruction for mounting an initrd in the lilo.conf. Slackware 12.0 didn't require an initrd and I don't recall having to have had one before. Does this version need one, and if so, is there anything I should know before trying to make one. Or what else am I missing here? Thanks, Longfellow |