OK, I got tired of trying to make the rc1 kernel work with my computer. 
Everything worked beautifully except my GeForce II card with Unreal 
Tournament (the only game I play) and when shutting down the system (once in 
a blue moon) it would not shutdown/reboot. Compile the source fine. Used it 
for weeks fine. But everytime I want to minimize the Unreal Tournament game 
and maximize back (like when trying to answer back to some nerd asking me 
something over GAIM) it starts to crap out badly... the screen freezes, and 
it comes back after some time, and it repeats again and again forever... 
until I kill it :-)

But, I know that one probably belongs to the Kernel Hackers at Nvidia ... so 
I went back to my ol' trusty 2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk  (last update for 8.2). 
Compile the src.rpm for NVDIA_kernel/NVIDIA_GLX (yes tainted the MF) and 
everything works beautifully again....

... well, not really, when I upgraded my system to rc1, I started getting 
crazy errors when I rebooted the system (or shutdown):
"umount: device or resource busy..."
"umount: /dev/DRIVEHERE"
"umount: /usr: Illegal seek"
"Init: no more process left in this run level" ...

and then stays there forever... if I hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE I get:
"Shutdown:warning:cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid"

Now, I had seen that error before a lot, but it tends to go away by itself 
(go figure). I wonder if that's a known error or if there is something I can 
do about it...

any thoughts?

My configuration:

352MB ram
2 ethernet cards (one active)
1 scsi card (might be the source of the problem) with 3 devices attached
USB ports (6) all full with crap
and normal CD writer (external scsi 2), zip (scsi 1), scanner (scsi 1), 
cdrom (DEC, ide)
winmodem (lucent chip (?))

pretty much everything generic...


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