17 Mar
2016
17 Mar
'16
12:42
On 16/03/16 02:54, Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2016-03-15 14:29, Basil Chupin wrote: > > On 15/03/16 23:22, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote: > >> Op dinsdag 15 maart 2016 22:30:43 CET schreef Basil Chupin: > >>> On 15/03/16 20:49, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > >>> Someone wrote: > >>> > >>> "When you want the proprietary driver, blacklist 'nouveau', > >>> when you want nouveau, un-blacklist it. Rebuild initrd." > >>> > >>> To which I replied: > >>> > >>> "Strange -- I have never done this (rebuilding initrd). I just > >>> compile/install the driver and reboot." > >>> > >>> Now, is there anything clearer and articulate than what I wrote > >>> in the above paragraph: "I just compile/install the driver and > >>> reboot"? > >>> > >>> "But", you say, "what about the nouveau driver?" to which I > >>> already said that the nVidia driver will not compile until the > >>> bloody thing is removed! > >>> > >>> So what is left? "I just compile/install the driver and > >>> reboot." > >>> > >>> Something still missing in the translation? Then please let me > >>> know. > >>> > >>> > >>> BC > >> 1. The nvidia driver compile doesn't care whether nouveau or > >> whatever is loaded. > > > Of course I do not have the knowledge or the expertise which you > > seem to have, or at least express that you have, but the nVidia > > compiler DOES care if the nouveau driver is installed because it > > just won't continue with the compile until the nouveau is > > disabled. > > > Are you saying all this from experience or from some theoretical > > concept? > > >> The installer does, but this can be overruled with options, like > >> the --no-nouveau-check, --no-x-check. 2. If nouveau is loaded per > >> initrd, one needs to rebuild the initrd after blacklisting > >> nouveau. > > > READ MY LIPS! > > > I have NEVER had to rebuild initrd after compiling the nVidia > > driver. > > > YES, as I said, FOR CHRISSAKE, the nouveau driver HAS to be > > disabled before the nVidia driver will compile but after that I > > have NEVER HAD TO REBUILD INITRD. > > > HAVE I MADE THIS CLEAR OR NOT?! > > Please calm down. I AM calm ... until I am pushed..... > And I told you that I had to rebuild initrd or my system failed to > start nvidia on the first boot after compiling the driver. This is > correctly explained in the wiki. > > How do you figure it out? I know why, but you don't seem to understand. > > /YOU/ do not need to rebuild initrd because you are not switching to > the nvidia driver, you are just compiling it again. Your case is > different. > > Me, I was using nouveau. I compiled the driver. Groan.... here we go again :-( . I repeat: READ MY LIPS! The nVidia driver will NOT compile if the nouveua driver is installed! The nVidia driver compiler detects that the nouveau driver is installed, stops compiling and asks you if you want it disabled/removed/whatever. > It worked. It couldn't have worked. What worked was the nouveau driver and not the nVidia driver. > Rebooted. > It did not work. I saw that nouveau was loaded. Exactly. > Yes, it was > blacklisted, yet it was loaded. Why? Because I did not built initrd. I > did, novueau got removed from it, the blaklist was inserted in the > archive image, rebooted, and now, yes, I got nvidia working. Not before. > > Do you understand that? Of course I understand this! But what I am trying to get across is that *I* -- for whatever reason -- have never had to re build initrd for the nVidia driver to work. Maybe I am just a lucky guy or have the magic touch or there is an angel sitting on my shoulder working things for me but *I* have never had to run mkinitrd to create a new intird. Do you understand that? > > The next time I will only need to compile the driver. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.5.0-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org