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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ===== > BoxBattle.com - Semper Absurda > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== BoxBattle.com - Semper Absurda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
