Comments on: Fedora 9 nvidia Disaster Relief http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/2008/05/14/fedora-9-nvidia-disaster-relief/ brakes were invented by cowards Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:15:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: virtualex http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/2008/05/14/fedora-9-nvidia-disaster-relief/#comment-12 virtualex Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:00:10 +0000 http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/?p=7#comment-12 The company I work for uses Fedora to run the software which I am essentially developing. Technically I can run anything on my local machine, cause I run the software at the development one remotely through ssh anyway, but for consistency it is better to have the same X server it would run on in production. I agree that latest Fedora is always for guinea pigs, but release is nowhere near, so everything would definitely stabilize by that time. As for me, I run Ubuntu on my home machine, and Debian on the home server, although it is a stretch to actually say I run the server. The damn old scisi drives are so loud that I can't stand the noise and it is down most of the time. Otherwise I would host this blog there. The company I work for uses Fedora to run the software which I am essentially developing. Technically I can run anything on my local machine, cause I run the software at the development one remotely through ssh anyway, but for consistency it is better to have the same X server it would run on in production. I agree that latest Fedora is always for guinea pigs, but release is nowhere near, so everything would definitely stabilize by that time. As for me, I run Ubuntu on my home machine, and Debian on the home server, although it is a stretch to actually say I run the server. The damn old scisi drives are so loud that I can’t stand the noise and it is down most of the time. Otherwise I would host this blog there.

]]> By: Irgendeiner http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/2008/05/14/fedora-9-nvidia-disaster-relief/#comment-11 Irgendeiner Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:54:47 +0000 http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/?p=7#comment-11 Me too with “Failed to update system. ...". Knowing that nvidia is a pain in the neck I stayed with vesa for installation, but the update did not run either. Plse tell me, why you stay with Fedora after such experience? Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 over the net ran 35minutes without a single problem, kindly asking at the end if samba.conf should be overwritten ;-) Me too with “Failed to update system. …”. Knowing that nvidia is a pain in the neck I stayed with vesa for installation, but the update did not run either.

Plse tell me, why you stay with Fedora after such experience?
Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 over the net ran 35minutes without a single problem, kindly asking at the end if samba.conf should be overwritten ;-)

]]> By: virtualex http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/2008/05/14/fedora-9-nvidia-disaster-relief/#comment-10 virtualex Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:00:28 +0000 http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/?p=7#comment-10 Here's <a title="xorg.conf example" href="http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/files/xorg.conf" rel="nofollow">xorg.conf</a>. Note that sections Module and ServerFlags I've added later on trying to make 3D working. It does just under 500 FPS for glxgears, but direct rendering is not working, it falls back to software rendering. I do not really know if it's possible to make dri working at all. I have no time to mess with it right now anyway. Here’s xorg.conf. Note that sections Module and ServerFlags I’ve added later on trying to make 3D working. It does just under 500 FPS for glxgears, but direct rendering is not working, it falls back to software rendering. I do not really know if it’s possible to make dri working at all. I have no time to mess with it right now anyway.

]]> By: Casey http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/2008/05/14/fedora-9-nvidia-disaster-relief/#comment-9 Casey Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:26:21 +0000 http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/?p=7#comment-9 Would it be possible to get an update to this article with an example of your xorg.conf output? Would it be possible to get an update to this article with an example of your xorg.conf output?

]]> By: virtualex http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/2008/05/14/fedora-9-nvidia-disaster-relief/#comment-8 virtualex Fri, 16 May 2008 19:29:06 +0000 http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/?p=7#comment-8 Yeah, something wrong with Noveau site, indeed. Hope they will fix it soon. As of beta nvidia, isn't it 2D-only at this time anyway? I am not very kin of binary blobs, so I do not see a point to be guinea pig for the big guys. Couple of years ago there was a bug in nvidia driver which would crash X if you simply try to display certain strings of characters. It took months to get it fixed and there was no communications. You could not even tell if somebody actually acknowledged its existence, least working on solution. All this secrecy just makes me sick. If there was an alternative I'd never buy a card from them. Unfortunately the situation is pretty much the same with ATI, and Intel only available as on-board. Yeah, something wrong with Noveau site, indeed. Hope they will fix it soon. As of beta nvidia, isn’t it 2D-only at this time anyway? I am not very kin of binary blobs, so I do not see a point to be guinea pig for the big guys. Couple of years ago there was a bug in nvidia driver which would crash X if you simply try to display certain strings of characters. It took months to get it fixed and there was no communications. You could not even tell if somebody actually acknowledged its existence, least working on solution. All this secrecy just makes me sick. If there was an alternative I’d never buy a card from them. Unfortunately the situation is pretty much the same with ATI, and Intel only available as on-board.

]]> By: Mark http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/2008/05/14/fedora-9-nvidia-disaster-relief/#comment-7 Mark Fri, 16 May 2008 17:15:02 +0000 http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/?p=7#comment-7 Same story here, I pulled F9 rpms via preupgrade even before the release announcement... And was highly dissatisfied with nv, too. But, instead of going with noveau, I managed to install nVidia beta drivers from livna-testing. Hooray for early adopters, rofl. Let's party or something. Same story here, I pulled F9 rpms via preupgrade even before the release announcement… And was highly dissatisfied with nv, too. But, instead of going with noveau, I managed to install nVidia beta drivers from livna-testing. Hooray for early adopters, rofl. Let’s party or something.

]]> By: Venky http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/2008/05/14/fedora-9-nvidia-disaster-relief/#comment-6 Venky Thu, 15 May 2008 04:12:46 +0000 http://virtualex.linuxoid.net/?p=7#comment-6 Ahh thanks a lot! I will surely try out nouveau.. Though its giving me a "500" error right now whenever i try to access that page.. Maybe more people overloading the site as nivdia is not working?! Ahh thanks a lot! I will surely try out nouveau.. Though its giving me a “500″ error right now whenever i try to access that page.. Maybe more people overloading the site as nivdia is not working?!

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