tor, 17.03.2005 kl. 17.29 skrev Ivan Gyurdiev: > > ... I do not believe I have enough information at this point > > to file a valuable bug report. I wanted to test old kernels > > to determine the point of failure first. I also wanted to know > > whether problems can arise from the interaction between gcc4-compiled > > kernel, and binary kernel modules, and felt that the list was a more > > appropriate place to ask this question. > > Okay, I have some more info now. More importantly, I think I have a > reproducible test case. > > Setup > ================================================================ > I haven't had time to go look for old kernels and test, however > I can confirm the crash I am dealing with occurs on kernels 1171-1177. > I couldn't get 1170 to boot. I am experiencing instability with BOTH > the nv open source driver, and the nvidia closed source driver. > Additionally I am running X with the RENDER extension. I tried > turning that off, and it makes no difference. Given the reproducible > behavior, I think overheating is an unlikely source of the problem. > It is possible I am dealing with another type of hardware failure, but > I'd like to think not, since the hardware is rather new. > > Types of Crashes > =============================== > Crash 1: Garbage displayed on screen... diagonal waves or some other > nonsense > > Crash 2: Monitor goes to standby (or whatever it's called that it does > when it's switching resolutions, like before starting X). > > The above two occur with the nv driver. System does not respond to > sysrq. > > Crash 3: Random freeze in the middle of what I'm doing. Screen freezes > to a standstill. System responds to sysrq. Sysrq-p shows X to be active. > I can provide more info if you'd like. > > This occurs with the nvidia binary driver. I experienced *exactly* those things when i used a Voodo 3 PCI card (lines rolling across monitor etc) - but the system didn't actually *crash*, i was (sometimes, at least) able to ssh into it, and reboot it. I think i was also able to (blindly) switch to a viritual console and hit control+alt+del. I personally blamed this on the card, as the problem went away the moment i switched it for a nvidia geforce 2 Mx pci. This was during late FC1 days. Kyrre
