Rob,
Last time I checked the latest nvidia drivers are still 0.9-769.
I'll try some debugging of mkboot this week. mkboot did work fine in both
potato and woody before I moved to the unstable [sid] tree.
Thanks for the help, I'll let you know if I find anything.
-Jon
On Mon, 28 May 2001 02:42:30 +0100, Robert Davies said:
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> > #1) Periodic X locks. These happen maybe once every week or two, and
> > generally after a session of quake3 has just ended. Easily remidied by
> SSHing
> > from another box on the network. I don't believe I've had one since I
> upgraded
> > my nvidia geforce drivers. I'm not totally sure though.
>
> There were some troubles with some version of those drivers, seen some
> downgraded back to 0.9.6 from 0.9.7 versions. Hopefully the 1.0 ones out
> now, are gold.
>
> > #2) My box completely crashes during the process of making a bootdisk
> > with the command "mkboot" under Debian Unstable [Sid]. The box locks very
> hard
> > - monitor blanks out totally and claims it's not getting a signal.
> Network
> > goes down, so no ssh or telnet. After a hard reboot, the monitor still
> won't
> > get a signal, and I have to physically remove the video card, and other
> > peripheral cards, and reinstall them separately. Then all works ok. It's
> good
> > to assume that I don't make bootdisks anymore unless extremely necessary.
>
> Right now, mkboot is a shell script, you'll find a procedure in there called
> makelilo. Simply make a copy of mkboot, and put in some simple debugging
> with echo, and then after unmounting as many file systems as you can,
> 'sh -x mymkboot', to see what is causing this.
>
> Possibly it's when the floppy is being written, maybe there's a lot of
> interrupts going on or something. I've had a number of installs on various
> systems, where the 'make a boot floppy' bit seemed to cause lock ups, though
> ironically for me, it worked perfectly under Debian (woody).
>
> Rob
>
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