Distrowatch: What went wrong with Fedora Core 4

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 15 July 2005 00:46, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Dave Jones wrote:
>> >On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:41:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > > The real question seems to me, how did this new kernel get
>> > > past testing if it won't even boot?  Thats now
>> > > vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4, the matching initrd, System.map
>> > > etc. The .1-1369 seems to be ok if I don't want to run X.
>> >
>> >The revelation this week seems to be that the livna nvidia rpm
>> > broke modprobe.conf on a number of installations. Did you have
>> > this installed by any chance ?
>>
>> What would be the full name of that rpm?  There is not a livna
>> entry in any of the files in /etc/yum.repos.d if that helps.  They
>> are exactly as installed.
>>
>> This is an nvidia card, a 5200 something with 128 megs of ram.
>> From an lspci:
>>
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34
>> [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
>
>That's almost the same one I have on my notebook:
>
>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce
> FX Go5200] (rev a1)
>
>I am currently using these 2 nvidia kernel-modules on this notebook:
>kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4-1.0.7174-0.lvn.4.4
>kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-1.0.7174-0.lvn.4.4
>
>[Two kernels installed in parallel because of
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16234
>which also hits me on this notebook.]
>
>> I posted a verbatum copy of the screen in a previous message, the
>> error is output immediately after the 'booting the kernel'
>> message. The language is a bit obtuse, but I believe its because
>> it cannot find the hard drive(s) once the vmlinuz file is loaded
>> and the exec begun.  Something about unknown_*****(0,0) to be
>> inexact.
>
>Dave could be right, initrd is a hot candidate for the origin of
> your problems.
>
>Besides this, I would suspect you to suffer from the same issue I
> have with this NVidia chip:
>  It doesn't work with xorg's "nv" driver, it only works with the
>"nvidia" driver. So, X not coming up with 1390_FC4 also could be an
>indication of X not finding the nvidia kernel module corresponding
> to this kernel.
>
>rpm -qa 'kernel-*'
>should tell you if you have installed it.
>
>Ralf

The point is moot now Ralf, I've installed bdi-4.20 over /dev/hda.
FC4 was a grand experiment spread out over a couple of weeks that I 
won't repeat soon if ever.  And I do think I gave it the old college 
try.  The debian based install for running emc in realtime Just 
Works(TM).  Now I have to finish building the psu and driver box for 
the mill, and finish up the motor mounts for the mill.  Another week 
is all if I can find some usable & affordable ball bearings with a 
5/16" bore, about a 10 pack of them.  I can machine everything else 
to fit.

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