Bug 119914
Summary: | xorg hanges with nvidia driver 1.0-5336 | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Denis Yeldandi <del> |
Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | davidf, jdennis |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:02:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Denis Yeldandi
2004-04-03 03:23:37 UTC
I have had the same experience with an NVIDIA card which works with the FC2T2 "nv" driver and has worked on FC1 with the NVIDIA binary drivers 1.0-5336. A "solution" has already been reported in the NVIDIA forum at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26745. It consists of recompiling the kernel with a different option. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73733 *** Why is it that Fedora/RedHat kernels are compiled with options that are known to cause problems with NVIDIA drivers? The NVIDIA binary modules are not an option for my employer, they are a requirement. The OpenGL performance of the nv module is simply unacceptable. If Fedora/RedHat makes users jump through hoops to get the NVIDIA drivers working, we are going to switch to a distribution that works with NVIDIA drivers out of the box (SUSE for example). It should be a fairly simple matter for NVidia to update their drivers to handle the new kernel options. The kernel is the bigger, more important piece of software and is doing far more than just supporting NVidia drivers. But by not releasing the source, NVidia makes life more difficult for distributions and users. Rather than complain to RedHat, complain to NVidia and ask them to a) release the source or at least b) release new binary drivers that work with the new options There are two kernel options that cause the NVIDIA driver problems. CONFIG_4STACKS and CONFIG_REGPARMS. Both are added by the Fedora team and are apparently development level, not stable, options in 2.6.6. The NVIDIA modules do work fine with 2.6 kernels with non-development level configurations. Other distributions do not have these options turned on, so why does Fedora? In particular, why does Fedora do this when binary graphics drivers are mandatory for decent performance with any 3D application? Wouldn't it make more sense to leave these options off and allow users who require these options to recompile a custom kernel? I would think that supporting OpenGL applications is far more important than freeing up a small amount of RAM to support hundreds of threads on Java database server. Fedora is a cutting edge distribution designed to drive technology forward with diverse goals. If proprietary drivers in a production environment is central to your needs then a release designed for stable enterprise class environments seems better suited to your needs than Fedora. Have you considered a Red Hat Enterprise product, it's goals seem more in line with your needs. We encourage 3rd party vendors to focus on RHEL because of its more stable and slower release model and as a consequence 3rd party products are much more likely to function well with such a product than with a distribution whose goal is rapid turn around and the integration of new software elements. You also need to keep in mind that NVidia has a role to play in this too and needs to be an active participant. You can help as one of their customers by expressing your desire for better support and testing of their products and making them aware how important this is to you. There is more than one player involved when it comes to a major OS distribution serving multiple target audiences. The more Nvidia hears the more they will participate. Make sense? To be perfectly honest I don't think anyone participating in Fedora, which is open source and community driven, had any idea this was going to break a 3rd party proprietary driver nor is it a goal of Fedora to ensure 3rd party closed source proprietary products are unaffected by the evolution the OS. Please consider a Red Hat product designed for your needs, our enterprise distributions. Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |