[PLUG] Fedora RC2 warning...

Elliott Mitchell ehem at m5p.com
Fri May 21 18:04:02 UTC 2004


> From: "Vincent Yau" <v_yau3 at hotmail.com>
> 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.
> 
> 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...

Welcome to Fedora Core 2. As you've noticed, this is a known issue. This
is what happens when you use a highly experimental kernel, things break.
As the feature involved does seem to be the way of the future, it seems
likely that nVidia will take care of this issue very soon, but they
haven't had a driver release since this feature was created (and they're
having to deal with a major new product in the mean time too). This goes
back to Fedora being an _experimental_ distribution, by contrast nVidia's
driver is aimed at the workstation market whom are generally a lot more
conservative about new distributions (guess what, you've got a Quatro
card, they might listen to you!). Until the likely driver update the open
source "nv" driver works or you can build a kernel with the 4K stacks
disabled (apparently a process they've made difficult).

Since we're on the topic of Fedora breakage. You might want to avoid
installing it on dual-boot systems as well. The 2.6 kernel changed how
the kernel reported the partition table information, and Fedora failed to
take the time to get newer versions of the utilities.


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