Re: PREEMPT kernel with nvidia

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Paul Csanyi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2008/1/1, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>:
> > Paul Andreassen wrote:
> > > Is it possible to have a PREEMPT kernel while using the closed source nVidia
> > > driver?
> > >
> > > I've compiled the stable kernel 2.6.18 and the backported kernel 2.6.22, and
> > > both kill random programs.  Its strange because it some times kills the game
> > > I'm running, sometime faults on boot up and once gcc actually died.
>
> I have the problem with nvidia driver too. If you want, have a look at here:
> http://www.debiantutorials.org/talkitup/index.php?topic=39.msg2630#msg2630
>
> If this preempt kernel solve my problem too, then should be good!
>
> Which video card, and CPU do you have?
>
> > hugo@debian:/sdb1$ uname -a
> > Linux debian 2.6.23-1-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 9 10:02:52 CST 2007
> > i686 GNU/Linux
>
> > From where can I download this preempt kernel?

2 videocards:
GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x
GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x

AMD Athlon(tm)
capacity: 2500MHz

http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.23-1-686

Hugo