Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

["Mark A. Taff" <marktaff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 17:09, Robert Paulsen wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 18:42, Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 00:26, Donn Washburn wrote:
> > > You will also need a completely configured kernel source for NVidia's
> > > file to run
> > > You might also check subfs in /usr/src/kernel-modules
> >
> > SNIP
> >
> > Say WHAAAAAAA!  if it is a stock SUSE keernel you need to do NO SUCH
> > THING AT ALL .
> >
> > if you play with fire with the kernel.org kernels  then maybe but the
> > stock suse upgrades do not need touching at all   install all four kernel
> > update files then you need do nothing but what i said previousley as i
> > have been doing for too long to remember ..
>
> What you said previously:
> > cd to the place you have the driver stored the for suse 9.2 do
> > " ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run -q" accept the driver answer yes
> > to
>
> the
>
> > rest of the questions about the installed driver , Driver installs then "
> > init 5" bingo X and KDE or the other one up and running if you had a
> > previous NVIDIA driver installed there is NO NEED for the sax2 bit (that
> > always fails big time for me any how so i hand brew things )
>
> That didn't work for me with the latest upgrade. When I executed the file
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run it said there was no matching driver
> found and offered to compile it for me -- which worked just fine.
>
> I am running the SMP kernel. Don't know if that is why it couldn't find the
> driver.
>
> # uname -a
> Linux paulsen 2.6.11.4-21.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> If you examine the executable you will see that it is a script file with
> some binary drivers embedded into it. The text portion of the file lists
> the supported kernels and the list doesn't include the latest SuSE kernel
> (smp or not). The script then checks the Nvidia ftp server and can't find
> it there either.
>
> For the compile to work, you do need to first install the kernel source and
> do the following, as root:
>
>         # cd /usr/src/linux
>         # make cloneconfig
>         # make prepare

I am having problems with this kernel/nvidia combination as well.  My box 
regularly (daily) locks up--nothing but a cold reboot will start it up again.  
When it locks up, I get a strange light red checkerboard pattern.  The 
keyboard is dead, but the mouse moves.  Cannot ssh into or ping the 
machine--the only thing that works is the mouse--very weird.

Then, during reboot, I get a vertical lines pattern, like:

 ||   ||    ||    ||

all across the screen. Rebooting into init 5 (KDE) will not work.  To fix this 
temporarily I need to boot to init 3, and run sax2 --sysconfig to force sax 
to reload saved config data, then exit sax2, at which point the box hangs.  
Then after a cold reboot, the box will boot to KDE just fine.

When this screen weirdness happens, it also affects the POST screen, and WinXP 
as well (not that I use it, but just in case I need it for office compat).  
It seems to me that this kernel/nvidia driver is occasionally somehow causing 
an incorrect setting in the nvidia chip, that running sax2 (and not changing 
anything) fixes.

I have thoroughly testes the box's memory, and didn't find any faults.

Does anyone have any idea what may be going on?  Any suggestions to fix this?  
Here is some basic system info:

HP Pavilion zd7260us w/1.25GB Ram -- 17" Laptop

KDE 3.4.1, SuSE 9.3

mark@liberty5:/home/mark> uname -a
Linux liberty5 2.6.11.4-21.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686 
i386 GNU/Linux

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667 for the nvidia driver.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

-- 
Mark A. Taff

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