mark wrote: Akemi wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:05 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Let me start by saying that no, I can't get a new card for my user.
No problem with that.
So, I've got the 96 nvidia driver. I've rebuilt it several times before, and Nvidia's installer's always worked fine. Actually, I have the 73
on my
system, and just updated to 5.5, and no problem.
I suggest you give the ELRepo package a try:
Thanks! I'll try that tomorrow.
*sigh* Well, I did that, and then went through a song-and-dance uninstalling the stuff the nvidia installer had put in, and uninstalling this so that would succeed, and then *really* getting rid of the stuff it wouldn't, and then using yum again.
And it still got trash. My user's sure he had not turned it off, that he just came in one morning and it had lost it, and I have every reason to believe him (he *does* know what he's doing).
So, at this point, we've given up - his machine wasn't on a UPS, and given the power in this building, there's a high probability of a surge, and something on the card got fried - so he's got another machine, and we're probably going to call this one dead.
Thanks, though, for the el repo link. I've got to remember that one.
mark
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:34 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mark wrote: Akemi wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:05 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Let me start by saying that no, I can't get a new card for my user.
No problem with that.
So, I've got the 96 nvidia driver. I've rebuilt it several times before, and Nvidia's installer's always worked fine. Actually, I have the 73
on my
system, and just updated to 5.5, and no problem.
I suggest you give the ELRepo package a try:
Thanks! I'll try that tomorrow.
*sigh* Well, I did that, and then went through a song-and-dance uninstalling the stuff the nvidia installer had put in, and uninstalling this so that would succeed, and then *really* getting rid of the stuff it wouldn't, and then using yum again.
And it still got trash. My user's sure he had not turned it off, that he just came in one morning and it had lost it, and I have every reason to believe him (he *does* know what he's doing).
So, at this point, we've given up - his machine wasn't on a UPS, and given the power in this building, there's a high probability of a surge, and something on the card got fried - so he's got another machine, and we're probably going to call this one dead.
Thanks, though, for the el repo link. I've got to remember that one.
Yes, the ELrepo does some good work. I'm quite happy with the nvidia drivers since they survive kernel updates with minimal fuss.
mark
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ron Loftin reloftin@twcny.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:34 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mark wrote: Akemi wrote:
So, at this point, we've given up - his machine wasn't on a UPS, and given the power in this building, there's a high probability of a surge, and something on the card got fried - so he's got another machine, and we're probably going to call this one dead.
Sorry to hear that the problem was more serious than initially thought.
Thanks, though, for the el repo link. I've got to remember that one.
Yes, the ELrepo does some good work. I'm quite happy with the nvidia drivers since they survive kernel updates with minimal fuss.
s/some good/excellent/
s/minimal/no/
Couldn't resist ... :-P
Akemi
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:44 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ron Loftin reloftin@twcny.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:34 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mark wrote: Akemi wrote:
So, at this point, we've given up - his machine wasn't on a UPS, and given the power in this building, there's a high probability of a surge, and something on the card got fried - so he's got another machine, and we're probably going to call this one dead.
Sorry to hear that the problem was more serious than initially thought.
Thanks, though, for the el repo link. I've got to remember that one.
Yes, the ELrepo does some good work. I'm quite happy with the nvidia drivers since they survive kernel updates with minimal fuss.
s/some good/excellent/
s/minimal/no/
Couldn't resist ... :-P
The only reason I didn't say that myself is that my experience with ELrepo is pretty much limited to the nvidia driver. I don't have any other need for drivers outside of what CentOS provides, and I don't want to scare away the users by being overly enthusiastic. 8^>
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Akemi wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ron Loftin reloftin@twcny.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:34 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mark wrote: Akemi wrote:
So, at this point, we've given up - his machine wasn't on a UPS, and given the power in this building, there's a high probability of a surge, and something on the card got fried - so he's got another machine, and we're probably going to call this one dead.
Sorry to hear that the problem was more serious than initially thought.
Yeah, we were afraid that was it. I mean, the nvidia installer binary package had been working fine, as does the one on my own system. But I reinstalled (over and over), and *if* the Nvidia logo came up, it had moving pixels of garbage in it, and if it didn't come up, the pixilated garbage was scrolling too fast to read. ssh'ing in, I could see in the log what I originally said - the "initialized GART, then "failing to allocate ROP", which I simply wasn't going to go down to read code to understand.
It's dead, Jim. You grab its tricorder, and I'll grab its wallet. <g>
Oh, and he had nothing plugged into his UPS. "Oh, yeah, it's been dead for a long time, I'm not sure there's a battery in it...." *sigh*
When I mentioned that to my boss, he said that we're not their mothers....
mark
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