[PLUG] Fedora RC2 warning...

[alan]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Vincent Yau wrote:

> 
> This is sort of a warning for everyone who is attempting to install
> Fedora RC2....
> 
> I did 3 installations of it.  The first two works just fine.
> The 3rd one did not.  The Nvidia driver broke (I am using QuattroFX 
> card....)
> The other 2 boxes that worked are using older Nvidia chipsets and they are 
> fine.

The non-commercial drivers should work fine.  It is the commercial drivers 
that have problems with the kernel.  (The 4k stack issue.)  The only fix 
is to remove the 4k stack patch from the kernel and rebuild the kernel.

The problem i am running into is a hang on a scsi driver.

> 
> I did a google search and apparently this is a known issue.  And someone 
> reported
> that the *latest* kernel, 2.6.6, works fine.  I am trying to fetch
> the patches but can't get to kernel.org (verio.net seems to be having 
> problems).
> 
> So, be forewarned that you are using a *newer* Nvidia chipset on your video 
> card,
> you may want rethink about using Fedora RC2...
> 
> --Vincent
> 
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