Re: feedback to NVidia [was: Nvidia Drivers]

From: Greg Trounson (gregt_at_maths.otago.ac.nz)
Date: 05/27/04

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    Paul L. Allen wrote:
    > Greg Trounson wrote:
    >

    >> To bring things back on topic, I can confirm that the binary NVIDIA
    >> 5336 drivers install and run fine on a stock 2.6 kernel with
    >> CONFIG_REGPARM turned off in Fedora Core 2.
    >
    >
    > Just clarifying here. By a stock 2.6 kernel, do you mean a source
    > tarball from kernel.org? That's a pain, but if it's what I have to
    > do, I'll do it. I just joined the list this afternoon. I bet there's
    > been some discussion that I missed.
    >
    > I installed the Nvidia 5336 driver onto whatever kernel came with FC2
    > and it appeared to install OK. But if I start X, the system locks up
    > hard. I have to pull the battery to get it to let go. The machine's
    > a Dell M60 with Quadro FX video hardware. Since running the nVidia
    > installer, if I run the machine without X, I get frequent "Badness in
    > interruptible_sleep..." messages.

    Apologies, I should have been more clear.
    By 'stock' I mean the official linux kernel as released by kernel.org,
    no other patches or tweaks apart from turning CONFIG_REGPARM off.

    I too found that X would hard lock the machine if I used the 2.6.5-1.358
    which came with Fedora Core 2.

    I can see why this might also be referred to as a 'stock' kernel, since
    it comes with a now standard operating system.

    Greg 

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