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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:24:28 +0000
From: Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?
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Valdis . Kletnieks wrote:
 > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:24:01 GMT, Adam Jones 
<adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
 >>/ In a futile gesture against entropy, Sid Boyce wrote:/
 >>/ > Max Valdez wrote:/
 >>/ /
 >>/ > >Been using nvidia modules for quite a few 2.6.x kernels, most of 
them mmX./

 >>/ > >without problems/
 >/> /
 >>/ I'm using it here with 2.6.4, no problems as yet./
 >>/ /
 >>/ > Something strange happened, I shall try 2.6.4-mm1 shortly to see 
if it /
 >>/ > is still the same. I reckon though that I've suffered a filesystem /
 >>/ > corruption./
 >>/ /
 >>/ A quick thought - have you got CONFIG_REGPARM enabled in the kernel/
 >>/ config? If so, disable it and try again. (It's almost certain to/
 >>/ cause crashes with binary modules.)/

 > Also, the NVidia driver uses a bit of kernel stack, so it's incompatible
 > with the CONFIG_4KSTACKS option in recent -mm kernels...

I have that enabled, so I shall turn it off. /var/log/XFree86.0.log 
shows it's getting so far then the lockup happens.
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
(**) Option "Xinerama" "off"
(**) Option "RandR" "on"
(++) using VT number 7

(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
(II) Module ABI versions:
        XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
        XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
        XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
        XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
        XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
Regards
Sid.

-- 
Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer
Linux Only Shop.

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