Re: 2.6.2 Kernel Badness with 1.0-5336 NVIDIA driver

[Thomas Weich <weicht@in.tum.de>]

I had the same problems with NVidia 1.0-5336 but there was no hint 
in /var/log/* that the NVidia driver caused the freeze. It wasn't necessary 
that X  was running, loading the nvidia Module was sufficient to freeze the 
complete system after an unspecified amount of time.

For me, it worked to use the 1.0-5328 version with patches from www.minion.de. 
Since then, everything is working without problems.

I'm not on the list.

Thomas

> I checked it. "RenderAccel" is not set.
> Maybe FW and SBA have something to do with it, but that's just a guess.
> Thanks.
>
> On Tuesday 17 February 2004 09:54 am, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 February 2004 16:08, you wrote:
> > > Hi to all,
> > >
> > > Pls cc me as I am not subscribing.
> > > I know that the kernel is tainted so pls don't flame ;)
> > > The kernel is 2.6.2 from www.kernel.org and I use AGPGART for AGP
> > > (_not_ NvAGP). Fast Writes and SBA are enabled. FC1 is the distro. The
> > > mobo is Abit KG7 and the video card an FX5600.
> > >
> > > X stopped responding out of the blue, at a KDE 3.2 desktop, and it
> > > could not be killed either. The following messages were uncovered in my
> > > /var/log/messages:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Please first check to see if /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> > contains the string:
> >
> > Option "RenderAccel" "1"
> >
> > If it does, either remove the line or replace it with:
> >
> > Option "RenderAccel" "0"
> >
> > Render acceleration is still not working with the proprietary driver. I'm
> > not saying it's definitely this, it just might not be related to the
> > messages in syslog.
> >
> > I occasionally see these badness messages in syslog, but my machine never
> > locks up. I was under the impression that these were only warnings.
>
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