On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:02 +0100, Jake Grimmett wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Just returned from vacation and was delighted to see that Centos 4.2 is now on
> the mirrors. Unfortunately the new i386 version is giving us problems on our
> dual Opteron workstations with Nvidia graphics cards...
>
> Basically, nine times out of ten, the boxes will hang when they try to re-load
> X... and just sit there with the keyboards Caps and Scroll lock LED's
> flashing. The only way out is the reset button.
>
> The working fixes I have so far found are to either use a non-smp kernel
> (2.6.9-22.EL) or to use the VESA X driver. Neither is a proper solution as
> the machines are used for 3D modeling.
>
> Non working fix attempts have included:
> passing acpi=off to the kernel
> trying Nvidia driver versions x86-1.0-7676, x86-1.0-7667 and x86-1.0-6629
> Installing Centos from scratch as well as upgrading Centos 4.1 to 4.2 (via
> up2date)
> Trying three different Nvidia cards (Geforce 6800U, 5900 and a MX200)
> Trying two different motherboards (Tyan thunder K8W and Tiger K8W - both are
> AMD 8000 chipset based)
> Trying two different pairs of Opteron 240's and Opteron 246's.
>
> As things used to work more or less perfectly with i386 Centos 4.1
> (2.6.9-11.ELsmp and the Nvidia 7667 driver) I'm starting to feel a little
> stupid - any chance that someone could put me out of my misery and suggest
> some solutions?
>
Jake,
There is a new kernel that addresses this specific issue that has just
been released. (2.6.9-22.0.1.EL)
I am building it now, but the kernel updates take quite some time.
Should be done later to day though.
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