Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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On 12/05/2010 03:02 PM, Donn Washburn wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 11:57 AM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 08:16 AM, Donn Washburn wrote:
> > > > On 12/01/2010 05:28 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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> > > > > On 12/01/2010 05:51 PM, Donn Washburn wrote:
> > > > > > Hey Group;
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Fresh install of openSuSE confirmed good DVD straight to the hardisk.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am just about to dump openSuSE because,  So much of it is just
> > > > > > broken
> > > > > > but the X Windows stuff and some of that fails.  On a machine with an
> > > > > > Athlon 64 with 1 Gig of memory and lots of HD will not compile a
> > > > > > factory
> > > > > > linux-2.6.37.# kernel using /proc/config.gz (implying .config.gz
> > > > > > doesn't
> > > > > > agree with "make menuconfig") and other problems are X windows being
> > > > > ... or you're running a different kernel than you have kernel-source
> > > > > installed for. There shouldn't be any differences between
> > > > > /proc/config.gz and /boot/config-$(uname -r)
> > > > >
> > > > > - -Jeff
> > > > >
> > > > > > forced to use drm and nouveau have the monitor not centered and so
> > > > > > dark
> > > > > > a sheet over the monitor and your head is needed to see it in the
> > > > > > dark.
> > > > > > Plus Amarok and Blinder fail.   And finally!  The mouse at console
> > > > > > fails
> > > > > > to work even after configured with Yast2 and restarted.  Oh yea! at
> > > > > > bootup while in VGA the monitor is very bright.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > openSuSE did fix postgresql so that it now boots
> > > > > - -- Jeff Mahoney
> > > > > SUSE Labs

> >
> Thanks Jeff for the interest in this problem. That fixed it.  Now if you
> could fix the Nvidia headaches with nouveau (I know it is kernel stuff)
> and the gpm binary.

Bringing this back into the list, so we don't have a situation where
complaints are public while solutions are private. The issue with the
kernel installation was that depmod doesn't deal well with having the
full debuginfo in the modules on a system with limited memory (when
dealing with a module dir of several GB, 1G memory is limited).
Installing with INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 works around the issue - and since
the modules in the kernel RPMs have the debuginfo stripped and put in a
separate package, we don't run into this on systems using the supplied RPMs.

What Nouveau problems are you having? I have regular Xorg hangs with
Nouveau on my system that present with the following message. I don't
believe it to be kernel-related.

[153286.983] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an
infinite loop.

I've filed a bug[1] upstream but the general consensus is that newer
nVidia chips (I have an ION2) have introduced a microcontroller which
the Nouveau driver doesn't know how to interact with. The Nouveau team
is working on it, but it's slow going figuring out a black box within a
black box. The proprietary nvidia driver doesn't hang on my system but
is so slow that I actually prefer the full-speed and occasional hanging
driver than to use the proprietary one.

- -Jeff

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26980

- -- 
Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs
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