On Mon, 2024-07-08 at 17:46 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 07:07:26PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > I recently installed Debian 12.5 with kernel 6.5.0.0 on an antique > > Dell > > Vostro 1700. Occasionally it crashes with > > > > "Kernel Panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer > > earlier > > and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer" > > > > Hi, > > As suggested, use the Debian 6.1 kernel. > > This is a laptop from around 2008 if I'm reading the spec. correctly. > This is a laptop with an older Nvidia card. How did you install it? > Did you try to install the Nvidia drivers at any point? I can't > find out whether this is one of the machines that has dual chipsets > (one Intel / one Nvidia). If so, have you used the instructions > for bumblebee/primus or whatever the appropriate magic now is?
I tried unsuccessfully to install the NVidia 340 driver from the NVidia drivers page. I found a SourceForge/GitHub page by MeowIce that had the patched driver, but not for kernel 6.1, so I installed 6.5.0.0 from backports-bookworm and the patched NVidia 340 driver. That also didn't work, so I reinstalled bog-standard Debian 12.5 with the 6.1 kernel using the net-install ISO from the Debian site. It doesn't have dual graphic chipsets. The video driver is nouveau. > > > I saw some remarks about this from 2013 in the context of release > > 3.5. > > > > Is this a problem in the kernel, or is the computer broken? > > > > Should I revert to an earlier release? > > > > > > Ideally, if you're running Debian stable, don't revert to prior > versions. > > Apt-get update to ensure that you're running the latest point > release. > > All the very best, as ever, > > Andy > (amaca...@debian.org) >
