Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:49:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:49:14 -0500 Received: from freemail.agrinet.ch ([212.28.134.90]:12562 "EHLO freemail.agrinet.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:49:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:57:50 +0100 From: Andreas Tscharner To: Linux Kernel Mailinglist Cc: "Kaleb Pederson" Subject: Re: windows=stable, linux=5 reboots/50 min Message-Id: <20030107225750.0d379588.starfire@dplanet.ch> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: No Such Penguin X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8claws25 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1350 Lines: 30 On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:57:03 -0800 "Kaleb Pederson" wrote: > After a recent hard drive crash, I re-installed Linux to a new hard > drive. After about 2 weeks, my system now spontaneously reboots about > once per 10 minutes (on avg.). I'm assuming I messed up something in [snip] > NVidia TNT2 Utlra (considering the system sometimes crashes before I > enter X and before the NVidia driver is loaded, my kernel has not been > tainted at this point). I still thinks it's the nvidia module. I've had the same problems with kernels >2.4.18. Someone told me that it has to do something with the coherency bug. I suggest trying 2.4.18... Best regards Andreas -- Andreas Tscharner starfire@dplanet.ch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/