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> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:56:49 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.
>
> Markus Kesaromous wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:09:19 -0600
>>> Subject: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.
>>>
>>> Kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 works fine on my laptop, but 217.2.8
>>> won't boot at all. It seems to run through everything just fine and
>>> then the video starts blinking like crazy in text mode, like it can't
>>> start the nvidia driver. After that I get a black screen with a
>>> blinking cursor.
>>>
>>> Kernel 217.2.3 is working OK for me. I can live without 217.2.8, except
>>> that I am worried that the next kernel update will delete it and I might
>>> be left with zero working kernels.
>>>
>>> Any idea on what I could do to get 217.2.8 running ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29
>>> 15:46:46 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> $ yum list kernel
>>> Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, kmdl, priorities,
>>> refresh-packagekit
>>> 1 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
>>> Installed Packages
>>> kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-213.fc11 @updates
>>> kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11 @updates
>>> kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11 @updates
>>>
>>> $ yum list \*nvidia*
>>>
>>> Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, kmdl, priorities,
>>> refresh-packagekit
>>> 1 packages excluded due to repository priority
>>> protections
>>> Installed Packages
>>>
>>> kmod-nvidia.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586.i586 185.18.29-1.fc11
>>> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11
>>> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586.i586 185.18.14-1.fc11.6
>>> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11
>>> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>>
>>
>> Seems to me fedora kernel is screwing up more things than just video drivers
>> which are supplied by xorg, but some of these drivers do not work on the
>> fedora released kernel.
>>
>> I am currently running FC11 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586 and my radeon driver
>> from xorg seems to eork fine. However, I wanted to see if I could
>> build and install latest 2.6.31-rc7
>> from kernel.org. Well, kernel configured and built and installed and booted
>> just fine, but no gnome desktop because the radeon driver wont work on this
>> kernel. Ditto with kernel 2.6.30.5
>>
> I think the answer is "from kernel.org" rather than "from rawhide" in this
> case.
> There were many changes in video with the 6.30 and 6.31 kernels, and I tried
> the
> rawhide one to fix my Intel video (did). But other things may have to change
> as
> well, so using the rawhide kernel is sometimes more successful that a raw
> kernel.org, particularly if you have custom modules tainting your kernel.
>
> You might try doing that.
>
> --
> Bill Davidsen
> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
>
I tried
kernel-2.6.30.4-25.fc11.src.rpm
and
kernel-2.6.31-0.167.rc6.git6.fc12.src.rpm
with the same result. No Video!
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