On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 22:35, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
 
> I don't recall having any problems with 4.2.0 on nForce.  I'm
> not sure that RedHat's "4.2.0" is really the same as a stock
> XFree86 4.2.0.  There have be cases in the past where they have
> modified theirs.  Try an official XFree86 4.2.0.

I just did, and unfortunately the behavior is the exact same.

Just to display my potential ignorance, what I did was to replace
nv_drv.o from the RedHat package with that from the binary distribution
at ftp.xfree86.org. I still get a hard lockup, and it seems as if the
log files that I am able to obtain reveal nothing at all. I guess they
are truncated at a more or less random point in time when the machine
hangs.

So... is there any way that I might try to look deeper into this,
preferably without having to rebuild X from scratch?

Thanks,
  Mikkel Lauritsen

> On 3 Oct 2002, Mikkel Lauritsen wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > this bug report has been posted by me before, but I unfortunately
> > got sidetracked and never got to follow up on it. My apologies.
> > 
> > Whenever I try to run the nv driver in 4.2.0 on my nForce-based
> > PC the X server crashes and locks the PC, requiring a hard reset
> > to continue, while the closed-source nvidia driver from NVidia
> > works perfectly. Because of the hard crash I'm not sure whether
> > the log file is complete, but it does not seem to contain any
> > irregularities.
> > 
> > I'm running RedHat Linux 7.3 on an Asus A7N266-VM with an Athlon
> > XP1800+ and 1 GB ram. The behavior is exactly the same under RedHat
> > 8.0, where the X package according to the release notes basically
> > is 4.2.1, even if the version number is still 4.2.0.
> > 
> > This problem might of course be a RedHat-ism, so I have reported
> > the problem there as well. Other people seem to have experienced
> > the same behavior on different nForce-based boards.
> > 
> > Do you have any suggestions as to how I might try to track this
> > one down? In case there is a need for it, I'd be more than happy
> > to provide log files and any other relevant information.


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