starting X interferes with NFS
Yeah. I've been trying to set up X on my ASUS A8N-VM-UAYGZ system.
Its on-board graphics chip is, I believe, an GFORCE4 6300. This
machine is successfully in production use as an NFS server, serving an
80G reiser filesystem on LVM on RAID-1 to several other machines on the
LAN.
I'm using AMD64 etch with Len Sorenson's -12 kernel, and csail at MIT is
my package repository. I've managed to compile and install the
so-called nvidia-kernel, but nvidia is not one of the options I get when
running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
Selecting nv gets nowhere; when I boot, X tries to start
up and fails, finding no screens. But more than that, when it starts
and fails on boot, the NFS server doesn't seem to work.
remote-mounting the big partition on another machine times out.
Of the options I've tried, only vga works at all. X still doesn't
start (apparently I've specified 24-bit graphics and VGA doesn't like
it), but at least the NFS server comes up properly, and my remote users
are happy.
Is this a known problem?
Actually, I'm not completely certain whether it was nv or vesa (or
both) I was using when the NFS server failed to operate -- I'd have to
try it again to be sure, but it's getting late and my users are
complaining about yet another shutdown. I will test it again and give
more complete details, probably tomorrow.
In the meantime, if someone could tell me just what data to gather to
help in diagnosis, I'd appreciate it.
-- hendrik
P.S. Does anyone know which NFS demon does proper locking *and* handles
files larger than 4G?
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