On Monday 28 January 2008, Zan Lynx wrote: >On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:50 -0500, Calvin Walton wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: >> > >Unfortunately we also see: >> > > > [ 48.285456] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. >> > > > [ 48.549725] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> >> > > > GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 20 [ 48.550149] NVRM: loading NVIDIA >> > > > UNIX x86 Kernel Module 169.07 Thu Dec 13 18:42:56 PST 2007 >> > > >> > >We have no way of debugging that module, so please try 2.6.24 without >> > > it. >> > >> > Sorry, I can't do this and have a working machine. The nv driver has >> > suffered bit rot or something since the FC2 days when it COULD run a 19" >> > crt at 1600x1200, and will not drive this 20" wide screen lcd 1680x1050 >> > monitor at more than 800x600, which is absolutely butt ugly fuzzy, >> > looking like a jpg compressed to 10%. The system is not usable on a day >> > to basis without the nvidia driver. >> >> You should probably give the nouveau[1] driver a try, if only for >> testing purposes; if you are running an NV4x (G6x or G7x) card in >> particular, it works a lot better than the nv driver for 2d support. >> >> 1. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau > >But nouveau is much less stable than nv. For testing purposes, go with >stable. > I believe at this point, its moot. I captured quite a few instances of that error message while rebooting the last time, all of which occurred long before I logged in and did a startx (I boot to runlevel 3 here), so the kernel was NOT tainted at that point. That dmesg has been posted and some questions asked. As this has gone on for a while, it seems to me that with 14,800 google hits on this problem, Linus should call a halt until this is found and fixed. But I'm not Linus. I'm also locking up for 30 at a time, & probably ready for reboot #7 today. >I'm not sure why it won't run his screen though. I can use nv to run a >1920x1200 laptop LCD. It *is* dog slow (although nouveau was not any >better with a NV17 / 440-Go -- render support for AA fonts seems to be >missing), but it does work. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Henry Kissinger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
