Nuitari wrote:
There was some issue discussed earlier about nvidia and 2.6.13 kernels
which basically said to use the unstable (and up to date) version of
the nvidia drivers.
FWIW, I was cheerfully using 2.6.13 with nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r6 for
some time with no ill effects. Starting as of about an hour ago, I'm
using 1.0.7676-r1 but I may revert to the stable version if I discover
any issues with my applications.
Did you try connecting the keyboard via the PS/2 ports?
I had the same problem with my MSI board until I did it.Enabling
Legacy USB support also works most of the time. I also found that
sometimes the USB keyboard won't be initialized between the time the
BIOS is done posting and until the linux kernel enables it making a
mess of LILO but it only seems to happen on a boot out of 2.
I tried both USB and PS/2 keyboards without luck. Part of the problem is
that you need to be able to get into the BIOS to change that setting.
And after a flash, it might have reverted to the default value, which
may or may not be what you want. That should be a problem that is unique
to USB keyboards though, so I was surprised that I had a similar problem
with a PS/2 one.
There are plenty of cases where a BIOS updates skip a version steps.
Thank you for the reminder. I notice that they skipped 1.6 too. I know
that software of any kind sometimes skips a version between releases. I
expect there can be any of a wide range of reasons for this, but I
wouldn't be surprised if it is at least occasionally because of problems
with a release candidate.
BTW, the chip came and I'm back in business. There's no place like
/home. Do not envy me the two weeks worth of updates I'm about to
emerge. Fortunately, I have decided that I can still get away with using
1.8 for now (after all that!).
I shouldn't have been nasty about MSI previously. I have been very happy
with them by and large. And that's based on owning about half a dozen of
their motherboards over the last few years. I do hope they resolve any
issues people are having with 1.B, though.
You may find this even more entertaining than version numbers in hex:
You know how big a PLCC-32 chip is? That's right, it's about the size of
your fingernail. The box they sent my chip in is big enough to hold a
small pizza.
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