Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964935AbVL3XLN (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:11:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964939AbVL3XLN (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:11:13 -0500 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:29840 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964935AbVL3XLM (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:11:12 -0500 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Mark v Wolher Subject: Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 =?iso-8859-1?q?hours=09/=09random=09apps=09crashing?= Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:11:27 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Lee Revell , Folkert van Heusden , Jesper Juhl , Linux Kernel References: <43B53EAB.3070800@ns666.com> <1135980690.31111.35.camel@mindpipe> <43B5B1C4.7070501@ns666.com> In-Reply-To: <43B5B1C4.7070501@ns666.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512302311.27125.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1884 Lines: 43 On Friday 30 December 2005 22:16, Mark v Wolher wrote: [snip] > > > > Basically you are asking for help with an unsupported configuration. In > > general people on LKML will be more helpful if you take the time to find > > out what the bug reporting guidelines are before posting. > > > > Lee > > Thank you for your input, but sometimes thinking out of the box gives a > solution instead of hiding behind "guidelines". I'm surprised Lee fed you this long, but the cold hard fact of the matter is that you are posting to the Linux kernel mailing lists, and you will comply with these guidelines if you expect help. I'm sure the problem might not be with VMWare, but there is absolutely nothing stopping you from switching nvidia with nv, not loading nvidia/vmware modules, then running the TV card doing *something else* for a few hours. If you do not detect lockups, contact VMWare. They will probably do the exact opposite of what Lee has done and suggest non-VMWare parts of the system are at fault. However, unlike VMWare or NVIDIA, we can actually debug problems if you use source-available modules. Thinking outside of the box here is irrelevant -- a problem requires logical procedure to gain a solution. Any engineer will tell you the same thing. Ordinarily, this is test, observe, retest, and all Lee is suggesting is that you do *not* load the proprietary modules. Try it before responding to this email, so you do not have to write another. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - 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/