Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 07:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/17 10:36, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I admit that I am newbie here and might be making wrong conclusions, but with each correction I get a little bit better understanding. I feel that if you're really interested into why certain repos

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/09/17 10:36, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > I admit that I am newbie here and might be making wrong conclusions, but with > each > correction I get a little bit better understanding. I feel that if you're really interested into why certain repos release certain versions of nVidia driver SW

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 07:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/17 09:51, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Thanks for info. I found this for long-lived: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=OTkxOA. I am assuming short-lived is for Fedoras and the like in which they may want/need to move to another

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/09/17 09:51, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Thanks for info. > > I found this for long-lived: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=OTkxOA. > > I am assuming short-lived is for Fedoras and the like in which they may > want/need > to move to another version and will abandon the prior

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 06:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/17 08:35, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Oh, I definitely missed that aspect. Middle of page of https://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia where it lists kmod-nvidia-xx is what led me to believe that. I can see on https://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/09/17 08:35, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Oh, I definitely missed that aspect. Middle of page of > https://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia where it lists kmod-nvidia-xx > is what > led me to believe that. I can see on https://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/ > that > they list driver version for

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 05:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/09/17 07:17, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Thanks for correcting me on the Centos vs Fedora issue, I made a leap of faith that I shouldn't have. That being said, if you say RPMFusion is 375.66 then that is the same one available at ElRepo. Isn't

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/09/17 07:17, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Thanks for correcting me on the Centos vs Fedora issue, I made a leap of > faith that > I shouldn't have. That being said, if you say RPMFusion is 375.66 then that > is the > same one available at ElRepo. Isn't the version available based on graphic

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 02:45 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/08/17 16:47, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I can't begin to figure out what is happening and where to report as I am too much of a newbie regarding NVidia on Linux Problems with nouveau, like all packages actually supplied by fedora project,

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread stan
On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 09:29:30 +0200 François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I have an nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 > GT] (rev a2)) and sometimes, with the nouveau driver, the X system > freeze and I have to reboot. > > I get these

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/08/17 16:47, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > On 07/08/2017 12:29 AM, François Patte wrote: >> Bonjour, >> >> I have an nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] >> (rev a2)) and sometimes, with the nouveau driver, the X system freeze >> and I have to reboot. >> >> I get

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 01:47 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 07/08/2017 12:29 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I have an nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)) and sometimes, with the nouveau driver, the X system freeze and I have to reboot. I get these messages

Re: nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 07/08/2017 12:29 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I have an nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)) and sometimes, with the nouveau driver, the X system freeze and I have to reboot. I get these messages in the logs: nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware

nvidia nouveau problems

2017-07-08 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I have an nvidia graphic card (NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)) and sometimes, with the nouveau driver, the X system freeze and I have to reboot. I get these messages in the logs: nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv84_xuc00f failed with error -2