I had problems with lockups with X using nvidia driver until I started booting with "acpi=off". On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:35:26AM -0700, Daniel Asarnow wrote: > Hi all, > I'm sure many of you have heard of or experienced the > nForce lockup problem. I was going through hell > because of it, then fixed the problem by recompiling > without APIC (or whatever that advanced power thing > is). Everything was great until I decided to upgrade > to kernel 2.6.5 (from 2.6.4). I built my kernel and > rebooted. I began to reinstall the nVidia drivers, > and it locked up while building the nVidia kernel (I > know it locks up when the num lock key stops changing > the LED and new consoles aren't created by alt+Fn). I > rebooted and installed my 2.6.4 package again, and > booted into that. I had to reinstall the nVidia > drivers, so I did. Started X. Used X > briefly...computer locks up. I rebooted and it locked > up in mid startx (with the screen still black). I > booted into windoze to write this, and after a month > of blackbox, windoze hurts my eyes. > Does anyone know how to fix this problem? > I'm using a NF7-S mobo w/ Athlon XP 1700+ (@ 2 GHz) > > Thanks in advance, > Daniel Asarnow > > ===== > -Daniel Asarnow > > BoxBattle.com - Semper Absurda > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Jerome
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