On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:09:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I finally got X up with the nvidia drivers! Lovely screen. I had no > idea my monitor was capable of such high resolution. It's now my > favorite machine to work on. Despite the crashes. > > Every now and then it just stope, and becomes completely unresponsive to > mouse and keyboard input, and ignores attempts to ssh in from another > box. Hardware-level reset is the only way to recover. Not too painful, > because of he reiser file system, but definitely disturbing. > > Before X, it just never crashed, and has been runnin as a NFS file > server to the other machines on the LAN. > > The nvidia kernel I use is > > nvidia-kernel-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic_1.0.8756-1_amd64.deb > > with > > nvidia-glx_1.0.8756-1_amd64.deb > > The kernel is vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic > obtained from Len Sorensen's site (did I remember the spelling of his > name correctly?
Should have mentioned: I'm running etch, installed from Len's netinstall CD. I get updates from csail at MIT. > > Once, only once, when it crashed I still had a functioning keyboard -- > enough to ctrl-alt-F1 to a root console, where I saw a flurry of > messates about eth0 -- complaining about not haveing access to it > and wondering whether another device might be competing for interrupts. > > I'd like to get this fixed. > > Is this a known problem and I should upgrade kernel and driver? > Is it likely to be hardware (which would be awkward because the warranty > on the assembled bor is from a company that, although it supported > Linux, is now defunct. > What diagnostic information should I be collecting? > Are there any other very maintenance actions (in the words of Dave Barry > :))? > > -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
