Re: nForce Board lockups - Was:2.6 and nvidia
Joseph,
It took me a while, but I have a stable system, with
just about every workaround on. Since I hear this is
fixed in 2.6.6 I might upgrade...but I am kind of
afraid it will break everything. Irrational, maybe.
Anyway, here are all the different workarounds:
kernel options (lilo.conf):
idle=poll, acpi=off, noapic, noioapic, mem=nopentium
BIOS fixes:
disable CPU disconnect
other fixes:
hdparm -X udma3 /dev/device
the mem=nopentium is probably total crap. All of
those have been used...I've been meaning to turn them
off one by one and perform a large grep operation to
try to cause a lockup and find out which one of those
things is really taking care of it, but if this is
actually fixed in 2.6.6 maybe I will just upgrade.
-Daniel
--- "Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL" <jfreivald@att.com>
wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> I have an nForce board and it seems a bit unstable.
> It was REALLY bad
> at first, but I turned in the memory for new and now
> it only locks up
> occasionally, but I have not found any tips on
> making it work with
> Debian and the 2.6 kernel. Where did you find your
> pointers, and how
> well is it working now?
>
> --JATF
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Asarnow
> [mailto:reve_etrange@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:39 AM
> To: Debian Users
> Subject: Re: 2.6 and nvidia
>
>
> Installing the current nvidia gfx drivers in 2.6 is
> actually real simple. You can download their
> self-installer from nvidia.com's driver section and
> run it with the sh. It Just Worked for me (well, it
> worked after I found some good workarounds for all
> the lockups my nForce mobo caused). You may have to
> tell XF86-Config to use the 'nvidia' module, though.
> I do not believe there are any specifics in the
> kernel config to...specify. You'll probably want to
> turn on VESA 16-bit support, though.
>
> -Daniel
>
>
> > --- hanasaki <hanasaki@hanaden.com> wrote:
> > > My nvidia is due in the mail soon. The nvidia
> > > packages from apt-cache
> > > search seem to depend on the 2.4 kernels. Could
> > you
> > > walk me through the
> > > steps to get get the nvidia drivers
> > built/installed
> > > on kernel 2.6.x? I
> > > have built the kernel with make-kpkg. Also, Any
> > > specific options to
> > > choose/not choose in the kernel .config?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > Were there any package conflicts?
> > >
> > > I had an ati card and after using alien to
> convert
> > > their .rpm to a .deb
> > > it installed fine but created mesa depend
> > conflicts.
> > > Wondering if the
> > > same happens on nvidia?
> > >
> > > Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:46:38AM -0400, Emma
> > > Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>As a warning ... I was getting ready to
> upgrade
> > my
> > > kernel to 2.6. I
> > > >>downloaded the new nvidia package. I was
> > following
> > > instructions from
> > > >>/usr/share/doc without really thinking and did
> a
> > > "make" on the modules
> > > >>package. Within seconds I got dumped out of X
> > and
> > > have been unable to
> > > >>start it ever since. The error messages I'm
> > > getting have to do with the
> > > >>module versions not matching the kernel
> > versions.
> > > >>
> > > >>I have no idea how to get X back under my old
> > > kernel, and the new one
> > > >>isn't ready to be used yet (basically
> nothing's
> > > working yet).
> > > >>
> > > >>So as a warning....do NOT mess around with the
> > > latest nvidia packages
> > > >>until you know for sure that the rest of the
> 2.6
> > > kernel is going to work. :(
> > > >>
> > > >>emma
> > > >>
> > > >>--
> > > >>Emma Jane Hogbin
> > > >
> > > > Hi Emma,
> > > > are you referring to 'make'ing X or the
> kernel?
> > > > couldnt you just reinstall what was overriten?
> > > > or remove the X packages and install them?
> > > > -Kev
> > >
> > >
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