[xwin-discuss] Nvidia driver wedges entire machine in snv_111

[John Martin]

Chris Ridd wrote:
>
> I'm still unsure how to extract extra diagnostics from a wedged system 
> via a serial console.
One of the advantages of the serial console is it runs at a higher
priority (usually IPL 12) which allows it to still work when a lower
priority driver is stuck in its interrupt code.  Have you tried booting
the debugger by adding the options " -Bconsole=ttya -kd" to the kernel 
line in grub?
>
> However I have since forced the box to boot this BE (111b) with a 
> 32-bit kernel - it only has 3GB of RAM anyway - and so far things have 
> been fine...
Is the time to failure short enough to believe the issue is unique to
booting 64-bit?