On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, steve wrote: >My box has an Athlon 1.3G, 512MB RAM, nForce4 ti4200. > >I installed RH 8.0 stock and nvidia's latest driver. It worked >great. Added dual monitor support, worked great. > >Over time I upgraded kernels from 2.4.18-14 through -19-8 seemingly >fine. Then with the latest 24-8 kernel XFree said it could not find >a screen. Complaining about not finding a library file. So I rolled >back to boot -19-8. > >Otherwise it's run without a hickup since Dec. > >A while ago I found X locking up a few times but associated it with >a possibly not fully inserted ps/2 plug. > >But now I've had the lockup occur twice more. The screen locks up >and stops responding to keyboard though the mouse will still move. >Running top shows X is using 99%CPU. My only option is to ssh in >remotely and kill X. > >This is the only oddity in my logfiles (Xfree and messages): >insmod: Warning: loading >/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will taint >the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA Correct. All proprietary kernel modules will taint the kernel, since they are proprietary. The message is just informing you of that so that you are aware you are running unsupported software. >(I do see a sysctl: vm.overcommit_memory = 1 and by glancing into >the kernel list I can see that it means it pretends there is enough >memory... Over my head here, but that does sound a bit odd.) Sorry, but I don't see the connection between this comment and the above Nvidia discussion above. You might want to try Nvidia's online web forum. It is Nvidia's recommended way of getting technical support for issues with their drivers. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
