-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, apologies in advance if this isn't the right mailing list, I saw earlier messages regarding nvidia binary driver so this should be ok.
Anyway, I was having a lot of these messages (kernel BUG at page_alloc.c) with the current version of nvidia driver (1.0-2960) and afterwards the system is unpredictable (possible hard locks, file system corruption, anything). At first I didn't relate this to the nvidia driver, but I've looked at the kernel mailing list and everybody says that the problem is NVIDIA related (I tried to contact nvidia but it seems that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is redirected to /dev/null). I'm beginning to think that it is true, because, tired of all the problems with this driver (earlier versions just froze X but this one is more serious), I switched to the xfree "nv" driver and the system has been rock solid since then, the only problem is that I cannot play tuxracer anymore ;-) I'm running Mandrake 8.2 with the updated kernel kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk and the NVIDIA_kernel built from the source rpm, but I had the same problem with the original kernel kernel-2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk and the corresponding rpm package downloaded from www.nvidia.com. The kernel is booted with the "mem=nopentium" parameter to workaround the known athlon bug (or linux bug wrt athlon) with agp. XFree is 4.2.0, straight from Mandrake RPMS. $ rpm -qa | grep XFree XFree86-libs-4.2.0-10mdk XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-10mdk XFree86-4.2.0-10mdk XFree86-server-4.2.0-10mdk XFree86-devel-4.2.0-10mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-10mdk XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-10mdk XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-2mdk $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 Model: GeForce2 MX/MX 400 IRQ: 10 Video BIOS: 03.11.00.18 Card Type: AGP $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Not Supported AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x Registers: 0x1f000017:0x1f000104 $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge Host Bridge: Via Apollo Pro KT133 Fast Writes: Not Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000104 $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 4x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Disabled $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0-2960 Tue May 14 07:41:42 PDT 2002 GCC version: gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk) - -- Luca Olivetti Note.- This message reached you today, it may not tomorrow if you are using MAPS services. They arbitrarily include in their lists IP addresses not related in any way to spam, and in so doing are disrupting Internet connectivity. Please stop supporting them. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/21/1944247 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9PAW4CQPXTRx9NmQRAnsQAKCxuLR5LybiJEkDzifIckltqPkrjgCfXnAE DbCibEmnjxVhpl/COP3Oz+c= =JGUK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
