>>>>> "quel" == Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
quel> --- Original Message --- quel> From: rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quel> To: Cooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quel> Subject: [Cooker] kernel 17mdk NVidia >> >> >> the driver builds but when first used the whole machine crashes >> >> and it crashes hard: no response at all, black screen, network quel> is dead, >> no magic keys, all logs only contain garbage >> >> has anybody build nvidia on the new kernel? Maybe my quel> post-install script >> screwed up somewhere. >> >> I'll test some more. >> quel> Two different machines: quel> 1. A Dell dimension with a TNT2. The machine boots but crashes as quel> above when I try to start X. Booting with the pci=noacpi option, quel> the machine runs fine. quel> 2. An ASUS-7N266 with Athlon 1700, embedded GeForce2, the machine quel> does not even start booting unless acpi=off is passed on the quel> command line. quel> It looks like the whole acpi thing is quite flaky. Why are the quel> files in /proc/acpi when all the doc show them in /proc/sys/acpi? quel> acpid looks for the rules in /etc/acpi/events and fails to start quel> because this folder does not exist. Where is acpictl? Long story, basically: - acpid is obsolete & ospmd is very alpha :( - I am packaging ospmd (first need software suspend to work). - ACPI code in kernel is very old and buggy, new code is _way_ better, but perhaps still not perfect. Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
