Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/17/2015 03:21 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: >>> > > >>> > > 4) If this fails and an error message says why, the new kernel must >>> > > NOT be used. Edit /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to change the default from 0 >>> > > to 1. Wait for a solution. >> > I have other kernel options, but I don't think

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/17/2015 12:21 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: The only other way I know is the automatic way - which occurs after a dnf update or, I think, during boot if the nvidia.ko module is missing. Checking, there's both an akmods.service and an akmods-shutdown.service. I'm not sure why you want bot

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-17 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 02:52:01PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 08/17/2015 02:45 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > > When an nvidia card is present, the akmod-nvidia package is present, > > and a new kernel is installed, it is necessary to ensure that a new > > nvidia.ko module is created. One

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/17/2015 02:45 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > When an nvidia card is present, the akmod-nvidia package is present, > and a new kernel is installed, it is necessary to ensure that a new > nvidia.ko module is created. One might expect that this would be a > natural requirement of the dnf proce

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-17 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 08:50:19PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 14:37 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > thanks! I installed the akmod-nvidia package.. > > This generally works, however be aware that there is currently an issue > when updating your system via dnf. If a

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/16/2015 07:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > what? not sure I understand.. what is the difference between kmod & >> > akmod... > kmod is the actual kernel module that gets loaded at boot time. akmod > is the system for building a new version of it for each new kernel. > Just to make it

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 19:10 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 08/16/2015 07:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > and everyone just uses dnf & akmod-nvidia.. > > > > Actually, I use both kmod and akmod on my desktop. This way, if > > there's a kmod ready, it saves a bit of time when I reboot; if not, > >

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/16/2015 07:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> and everyone just uses dnf & akmod-nvidia.. > > Actually, I use both kmod and akmod on my desktop. This way, if > there's a kmod ready, it saves a bit of time when I reboot; if not, > akmod will take care of it. what? not sure I understand.. what is the d

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/16/2015 03:57 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: and everyone just uses dnf & akmod-nvidia.. Actually, I use both kmod and akmod on my desktop. This way, if there's a kmod ready, it saves a bit of time when I reboot; if not, akmod will take care of it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedora

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/16/2015 05:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > >> > I was having this problem as well. But there were some recent >> > changes and even though the rpm isn't getting installed during the >> > "dnf update" phase as long as I have akmods-shutdown.service enabled >> > the rpm gets rebuilt

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/17/15 05:19, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 04:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I was having this problem as well. But there were some recent changes and >> even though the rpm isn't getting installed during the "dnf update" phase as >> long as I have akmods-shutdown.servi

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/16/2015 03:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > thanks! I installed the akmod-nvidia package.. > This generally works, however be aware that there is currently an issue > when updating your system via dnf. If a new kernel is installed, the > akmod system will create a new kmod rpm and then

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/16/2015 02:21 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I've no idea what it's supposed to do, I'm just reporting what it actually does. The various akmods run at boot, as a service. Specifically, akmod-nvidia checks to see if there's a kmod-nvidia for the current kernel. If there is, it exits;

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 13:09 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/16/2015 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > The workaround is to check/var/cache/akmods/nvidia/.last.log after > > a > > new kernel has been installed but before booting. If it shows an > > error > > (jump to the end of the file) you

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 04:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/17/15 03:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 14:37 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > thanks! I installed the akmod-nvidia package.. > > This generally works, however be aware that there is currently an > > issue >

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/17/15 03:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 14:37 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> thanks! I installed the akmod-nvidia package.. > This generally works, however be aware that there is currently an issue > when updating your system via dnf. If a new kernel is installed, th

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 16.08.2015 um 22:09 schrieb Joe Zeff: On 08/16/2015 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The workaround is to check/var/cache/akmods/nvidia/.last.log after a new kernel has been installed but before booting. If it shows an error (jump to the end of the file) you still have time to manually in

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/16/2015 12:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The workaround is to check/var/cache/akmods/nvidia/.last.log after a new kernel has been installed but before booting. If it shows an error (jump to the end of the file) you still have time to manually install the new rpm before rebooting. Two

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 14:37 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > thanks! I installed the akmod-nvidia package.. This generally works, however be aware that there is currently an issue when updating your system via dnf. If a new kernel is installed, the akmod system will create a new kmod rpm and then t

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/16/2015 01:22 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: >> ok, so I got a new computer, was windows 10, now dual-boot with fedora >> 22 x86_64. I have had AMD Radeon card for my last computer, but this one >> comes with a Nvidia GeForce Gt 705. I seem to remember this from long >&g

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 08/16/2015 01:35 PM, Gerard Teichman wrote: >> > I have had AMD Radeon card for my last computer, but this one >> > comes with a Nvidia GeForce Gt 705. I seem to remember this from long >> > ago, I downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux.run . >> > are there any

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Gerard Teichman
mailing list: no reply Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.4 (3.16.4-2.fc22) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I have had AMD Radeon card for my last computer, but this one > comes with a Nvidia GeForce Gt 705. I seem to remembe

Re: Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 16.08.2015 um 16:17 schrieb Paul Cartwright: ok, so I got a new computer, was windows 10, now dual-boot with fedora 22 x86_64. I have had AMD Radeon card for my last computer, but this one comes with a Nvidia GeForce Gt 705. I seem to remember this from long ago, I downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux

Nvidia GeForce Gt 705

2015-08-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
ok, so I got a new computer, was windows 10, now dual-boot with fedora 22 x86_64. I have had AMD Radeon card for my last computer, but this one comes with a Nvidia GeForce Gt 705. I seem to remember this from long ago, I downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux.run . are there any gotcha's or anyth