[ATrpms-users] F9 user testers needed

Sat May 31 20:14:19 CEST 2008

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:54 PM, John Welch <jrw3319 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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<http://people.atrpms.net/%7Epcavalcanti/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
>

Yes, Jeff also pointed me out the missing .i686. I fixed my scripts,
recreated the kmdl rpm, but it turned out that the patch is not O.K. yet,
as you also realized. The file sizes are always zero.

I asked Axel to downgrade to our previous version. At least it will work for
F8.

>
> 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.)
>
>
The new nvidia driver should not have done that, I hope.
But I need to install F9 on a computer.  Otherwise, I cannot fix anything.

I was waiting for a Dell Vostro 1500 with an nvidia 8400 GS, I ordered and
paid for.

However, Dell just communicated me they do not have the nvidia board
anymore,
and tried to give a 1GB extra of memory, in compensation.  Of course I
refused,
but I really do not know what will happen ...

Dell is giving headaches in a lot of people:

http://www.cio.com/article/371313/Court_Finds_Dell_Guilty_of_Fraud

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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