Re: random crashes after installing X with nvidia
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:09:35AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> I finally got X up with the nvidia drivers! Lovely screen. I had no
> idea my monitor was capable of such high resolution. It's now my
> favorite machine to work on. Despite the crashes.
>
> Every now and then it just stope, and becomes completely unresponsive to
> mouse and keyboard input, and ignores attempts to ssh in from another
> box. Hardware-level reset is the only way to recover. Not too painful,
> because of he reiser file system, but definitely disturbing.
>
> Before X, it just never crashed, and has been runnin as a NFS file
> server to the other machines on the LAN.
>
> The nvidia kernel I use is
>
> nvidia-kernel-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic_1.0.8756-1_amd64.deb
>
> with
>
> nvidia-glx_1.0.8756-1_amd64.deb
>
> The kernel is vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic
> obtained from Len Sorensen's site (did I remember the spelling of his
> name correctly?
Should have mentioned: I'm running etch, installed from Len's
netinstall CD. I get updates from csail at MIT.
>
> Once, only once, when it crashed I still had a functioning keyboard --
> enough to ctrl-alt-F1 to a root console, where I saw a flurry of
> messates about eth0 -- complaining about not haveing access to it
> and wondering whether another device might be competing for interrupts.
>
> I'd like to get this fixed.
>
> Is this a known problem and I should upgrade kernel and driver?
> Is it likely to be hardware (which would be awkward because the warranty
> on the assembled bor is from a company that, although it supported
> Linux, is now defunct.
> What diagnostic information should I be collecting?
> Are there any other very maintenance actions (in the words of Dave Barry
> :))?
>
> -- hendrik
>
>
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