Bug 12522

I have been running 3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4 here on my x86-64 Mageia 4/Cauldron box for quite some time, and everything seems fine:

* KDE 4 works with effects.
* The sound is fine (VLC, mplayer, Amarok).
* The videos play fine.
* VirtualBox works fine.
* LXDE works.
* perl programs work.
* urpmi / mcc / etc. are working.

I couldn't find any problem.

My computer's SPECs are:

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My primary machine is a desktop machine with a:

    An Intel Core i3 CPU (x86-64).
    8 GB of RAM.
    Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    A 2 TB hard-disk.
    A 21×´ Wide LCD Screen by LG.
    Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller.
    Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection.

[/Quote]

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

CC: (none) => shlomif

No problem so far with the following packages on my recent laptop.

kernel-desktop-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-desktop-devel-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-desktop-devel-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4
kernel-desktop-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4
kernel-userspace-headers-3.12.9-1.mga4
nvidia-current-kernel-3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4-325.15-7.mga4.nonfree
vboxadditions-kernel-3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4-4.3.6-9.mga4
virtualbox-kernel-3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4-4.3.6-9.mga4

CC: (none) => stormi

No problem so far on my x86_64 laptop (see my second entry on the QA ISO testers list for specs), with:

- cpupower-3.12.9-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-userspace-headers-3.12.9-1.mga4.x86_64
- nvidia-current-kernel-3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4-325.15-7.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
- nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-325.15-7.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
- vboxadditions-kernel-3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4-4.3.6-9.mga4.x86_64
- vboxadditions-kernel-desktop-latest-4.3.6-9.mga4.x86_64
- virtualbox-kernel-3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4-4.3.6-9.mga4.x86_64
- virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest-4.3.6-9.mga4.x86_64

CC: (none) => remi

No problems so far with kernel-desktop-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4 on my x86-64 laptop, with these specs:

[Q]
 I also have an Acer Aspire 5738DZG laptop with the following specs:

    Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz. (x86-64).
    ATI Mobility Radeon⢠HD 4570 (r700)
    15.6×´ 3D HD LCD Screen.
    3 GB Memory
    320 GB Hard Disk Drive.
    âDVD Super Multi DL driveâ
    Acer Nplify⢠802.11b/g/n.
[/Q]

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

at first sight no problem here on an old 32bits laptop with intel video card.

installed:
     cpupower-3.12.9-1.mga4
     kernel-desktop-3.12.9-1.mga4
     kernel-desktop-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4
     kernel-userspace-headers-3.12.9-1.mga4

I could not test everything I wanted, because I couldn't install everyting wanted to test with, like vlc, because of bug 12608 ... wlan works fine.

CC: (none) => marja11

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #5)
> at first sight no problem here on an old 32bits laptop with intel video card.
> 

âThanks for testing, Marja!

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

installed kernel-desktop-latest on my mga4.

No pbs encountered for the moment.

CC: (none) => mageia

Which architecture Nicolas please?

i586

When testing these main kernels, used in a default installation, it is usually necessary to remove dkms driver packages to allow the pre-built kmod packages to be used instead.

You can check which are installed on your kernels with 'dkms status'. It takes a while and spits out a long list of confusing gibberish, but lists which versions of which modules are installed on which kernels and also how. 

At the end of each line it says something like Installed or Binary installed. If it mentions 'Binary' then it is the pre-built kmod, 'Installed' on it's own is built by dkms.

@ Claire

So this is OK, because for the newest kernel there is only the binary one, correct?:
[root@localhost u]# dkms status
nvidia-current, 325.15-1.mga4.nonfree, 3.12.8-desktop-2.mga4, x86_64: installed 
nvidia-current, 325.15-1.mga4.nonfree, 3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4, x86_64: installed-binary from 3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4
nvidia-current, 325.15-1.mga4.nonfree, 3.12.8-desktop-2.mga4, x86_64: installed-binary from 3.12.8-desktop-2.mga4
[root@localhost u]# 

Anyway, I installed 
- cpupower-3.12.9-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-devel-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-desktop-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4.x86_64
- kernel-userspace-headers-3.12.9-1.mga4.x86_64
- nvidia-current-kernel-3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4-325.15-7.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
- nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-325.15-7.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
* rebooted
Everything looked good, so now switched from Nouveau to "NVidia GeForce 8100 to GeForce 360" (which wasn't useable before)
* rebooted
Everything looked fine at first sight \o/, but rightclicking in Dolphin on a textfile to open it with Kwrite didn't work ("kwrite path/to/file" worked fine, though)
* switched back to Nouveau
* after reboot righ-clicking to open with Kwrite worked again (*if* not managing to do that while using NVidia is related to using NVidia, then I don't understand why)
With Nouveau, everything looks OK, watching a HD television stream with subtitles using VLC works perfect, too.

I don't know whether I had as many not-found services before the kernel update as now (± 12, some of which, like NetworkManager.service, I certainly don't need, but I'm not sure about e.g. the not-found messagebus.service)

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #11)
> @ Claire
> 
> So this is OK, because for the newest kernel there is only the binary one,
> correct?:
> [root@localhost u]# dkms status
> nvidia-current, 325.15-1.mga4.nonfree, 3.12.8-desktop-2.mga4, x86_64:
> installed 
> nvidia-current, 325.15-1.mga4.nonfree, 3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4, x86_64:
> installed-binary from 3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4
> nvidia-current, 325.15-1.mga4.nonfree, 3.12.8-desktop-2.mga4, x86_64:
> installed-binary from 3.12.8-desktop-2.mga4


That's right marja yes.

> Everything looked good, so now switched from Nouveau to "NVidia GeForce 8100
> to GeForce 360" (which wasn't useable before)
> * rebooted
> Everything looked fine at first sight \o/, but rightclicking in Dolphin on a
> textfile to open it with Kwrite didn't work ("kwrite path/to/file" worked
> fine, though)
> * switched back to Nouveau
> * after reboot righ-clicking to open with Kwrite worked again (*if* not
> managing to do that while using NVidia is related to using NVidia, then I
> don't understand why)
> With Nouveau, everything looks OK, watching a HD television stream with
> subtitles using VLC works perfect, too.

The issues with kwrite (etc) are related to the issue with upstream proprietary nvidia driver, not the hardware itself. Using the open source driver Nouveau rather than the proprietary nvidia allows things to work as they should.

The nvidia driver isn't being updated here though. The nvidia-* packages here are just kernel modules for the same driver pre-built for the matching kernel, which itself has only received a minor update for a major security fix, so this isn't expected to fix those issues at the moment.

Testing complete mga4 x86_64,

Nothing to report, all seems work nice.

-kernel-desktop-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
-kernel-userspace-headers-3.12.9-1.mga4
-vboxadditions-kernel-3.12.9-desktop-1.mga4-4.3.6-9.mga4

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA4-64-OK

Testing complete mga4 i586,

Nothing to report, all seems work nice.

-vboxadditions-kernel-desktop586-latest-4.3.6-9.mga4
-kernel-desktop586-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4
-vboxadditions-kernel-3.12.9-desktop586-1.mga4-4.3.6-9.mga4
-kernel-desktop586-devel-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
-kernel-userspace-headers-3.12.9-1.mga4
-kernel-desktop586-devel-latest-3.12.9-1.mga4
-kernel-desktop586-3.12.9-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
-cpupower-3.12.9-1.mga

Whiteboard: MGA4-64-OK => MGA4-64-OK MGA4-OK-32

Validating. You'll need to add the advisory though when you push.

Could sysadmin please push to 4 core & nonfree updates

Thanks

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Update pushed:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0039.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Whiteboard: MGA4-64-OK MGA4-32-OK => MGA4-64-OK MGA4-32-OK advisory