Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (338 mails)

[Mike Rosing <eresrch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Bob Fischer wrote:

> I described in January how my Gigabit k8T-whatever motherboard would
> hang all the time on the Linux 2.4.21 kernel that came with SuSE 9.0.
> So I built my own 2.6.1 kernel, which is very stable.  Sure, it doesn't
> quite go with SuSE 9.0 and I had to manually configure all my devices
> --- but that's better than crashing all the time.
>
> With all the talk of 3-D graphics cards, I tried installing an nVidia
> GeForce 5200 video card.  It works in 2-D out of the box of course, but
> the 3-D had to be downloaded from nVidia.
>
> The nVidia driver, will compile itself for your specific kernel.
> Unfortunately, the driver only works on the following kernels:
>   2.4.x for i386 or x86_64
>   2.6.x for i386 ONLY
> It informed me that it didn't work for my 2.6.1 kernel.
>
> Maybe the 2.4.21 kernel has had some bugfixes that would make it work
> with my mobo.  I downloaded the latest (2.4.21-209) and tried it.  No
> luck... it hung after about 20 minutes during a period of high disk
> activity, just like in the good 'ole days before 2.6.1
>
> I guess I'll just have to wait until the 2.6 kernel is officially
> supported by SuSE 9.1, and nVidia has brought out drivers for it.

I just tried the same thing for my rig with the 2.6.3 kernel and it
complained bitterly.  I figured I just had something set up wrong and
was going to get back to trying something else.  Thank you for letting me
know it won't work!

Maybe in 6 to 10 months we can try again.  I don't need 3D graphics, but
having the right driver will make the system smoother anyway.

Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike