I upgraded my RH9 to FC1 about a month ago and since then I've been having this intermittent problem. I've put off posting here because every time I think to, there's a new kernel released, or new nvidia drivers, but none of the updates have seemed to help.
I'm running kernel version 2.4.22-1.2166.nptl and nvidia's non-free driver version 5336 (the newest one). I'm actually doing an update for the 2174.nptl kernel now, but based on history it won't make a difference. Here's the problem. After having my computer running a couple days or more, if I try to switch to a console, logout, or shutdown the computer the screen goes black and stays black. It seems to get signal, because my monitor doesn't complain, but the whole system seems to lock up. I can't do anything except a hard reset. I've tried ssh'ing in and I get a conn. time out. Same with http. When I start up again, there is nothing in any of the /var/log/* files about a kernel panic or anything. There'll be normal system messages from before I tried to do a console switch, then the startup messages. Also the strange thing is, it only seems to happen after a few days of up time. Right now, I'm at about 9hours uptime and it works fine, so it's kind of difficult to figure out if I've fixed it or not. The last thing I did last night was set CC=gcc32 before building the nvidia driver again. I'll have to wait a day or two to find out if this worked. Also I noticed this line in /var/log/messages when the nvidia module gets loaded and whenever I do a console switch (and it works). This line only happens when switching _to_ X mode though. Feb 22 11:35:59 futeki modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134 I don't know what this means exactly or if it applies. Also I've got one in messages around a cups restart that says char-major-188. This whole thing obviously has something to do with gdm, the kernel, nvidia drivers, or X. If anyone can think of any useful places to look for information in my system that would be helpful. I've looked around a lot online and can't find anyone with this exact problem. Thanks, -Tim -- Timothy A. Chagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
