[ATrpms-users] F9 user testers needed

[John Welch]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know how F9 is behaving with Atrpms packages.
>
> Mainly:
>
> 1) is nividia 173 working with 3D acceleration?
>
> 2) I tried to get a patch for cdfs and kernel 2.6.25
> It compiled fine, but I can not test it (I did not install F9 yet)
>
> I have an i386 version here, for kernel 2.6.25.3-18:
>
> http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/rpms/rpms9/cdfs-kmdl-2.6.25.3-18.fc9-2.6.23-6.fc9.i686.rpm
>
> It is necessary only to install the kmdl.
>
> Then, insert any audio CD in a cdrom, and do:
>
> sudo mount -t cdfs -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdfs
>
> Of course, the directory /mnt/cdfs must be created first,
> and /dev/cdrom mut be associated with the drive you put your CD.
>
> If everything is O.K, an
>
> ls -al /mnt/cdfs
>
> should show all the tracks as ordinary files.
> These tracks can be played with mplayer, or copied to another
> place to be burned with k3b.
>
> total 8
> dr-xr-xr-x  1 root root        0 2008-05-30 19:12 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root     4096 2008-02-04 10:00 ..
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 39184364 2008-05-30 19:12 track-01.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 39000908 2008-05-30 19:12 track-02.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 43465004 2008-05-30 19:12 track-03.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 44982044 2008-05-30 19:12 track-04.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 42848780 2008-05-30 19:12 track-05.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 41501084 2008-05-30 19:12 track-06.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 43669628 2008-05-30 19:12 track-07.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 43942460 2008-05-30 19:12 track-08.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 38977388 2008-05-30 19:12 track-09.wav
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 40485020 2008-05-30 19:12 track-10.wav
>
> To unmount, just do:
>
> sudo umount /mnt/cdfs
>
> If the listing of the CD files is not the way I showed here, then the patch did not work.
>

Paulo,

I was 0-2 in testing the things you asked about on my F9 system.

With the cdfs package I had a couple of issues.  First, when
installing the package using 'rpm' the system complained about needing
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.  On my system at least there is a .i686
at the end of this file.  I then tried installing the package with the
'--nodeps' option and then merged the kernel module into the proper
spot.  When I tried the mount command the system didn't complain and
successfully mounted a CD, but below is a sample output of an 'ls -l'
command: (I tried a couple of different CD's)

total 0
prw------- 1 jrw  jrw  0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-01.wav
prw------- 1 jrw  jrw  0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-02.wav
prw------- 1 jrw  jrw  0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-03.wav
prw------- 1 jrw  jrw  0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-04.wav
prw------- 1 jrw  jrw  0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-05.wav
prw------- 1 root root 0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-06.wav
prw------- 1 root root 0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-07.wav
prw------- 1 root root 0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-08.wav
prw------- 1 root root 0 2008-05-31 13:29 track-09.wav


As far as the nvidia 173 drivers from the ATrpms repo, I had more
serious issues.  I have been using the 173 version drivers from
freshrpms and they have been working great (3D acceleration included).
 However, I would prefer to stick with ATrpms, which is what I have
always used in the past, so this was a good chance to test them out.
Unfortunately I didn't get very far.  I uninstalled the package from
freshrpms, and then used yum to install the packages from ATrpms.
When I rebooted my system X would not start at all.  Below is the tail
end of the Xorg.0.log file from the failed attempt:

(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Need libwfb but wfbScreenInit not found

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

Even when I uninstalled the nvidia packages and went back to the
freshrpms package I was still having this problem.  I found that the
libwfb.so was missing from my system.  I had to reinstall the
xorg-x11-server-Xorg package in order to get this file back, and then
X started working again.  I don't know if the nvidia packages from
ATrpms were completely the cause of this issue because I had tried
several things with the nvidia drivers when I first installed F9 on
this system, which was before the working drivers came out.  In any
case, I think I will stick with the freshrpms package, at least for
the short term.

Other than that, in general the packages from the ATrpms repo for F9
are working fine (mythtv, vlc, xmms, etc.)

John