On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 17:03, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday August 5 2010, C wrote:
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 15:27, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I don't know what "nomodeset" is supposed to do, but my nVidia driver loads and works fine with or without it. However, I need to give "vmalloc=192M" to make it possible for the X server to start. Without it there's a chance it will start, but a slim one, and when it does there are frequent debilitating pauses when nothing at all happens in user-level code and the kernel soaks up all the CPU and inhibits all other execution (apparently).
For what it's worth, that problem (the frequent debilitating pauses) is fixed- or seems to be - in kernel 2.6.35. As soon as I bumped up to 2.6.35... those issues went away.
My understanding is that each openSUSE release picks a particular kernel and stays with it, so unless someone back-ports that bug-fix, it's not going to do 11.3 users any good. At least not those who draw the line at compiling their own kernels.
Thus my.. for what it's worth comment ;-) Also.. I didn't compile my own.. just installed the 2.6.35 kernel from the openSUSE Kernel:Head repo. Whatever the bug is, it's rather bad... it makes using 11.3 impossible... or at the very least very annoying... and it's been fixed. I don't know how to identify the "fix" to request a backport to 2.6.34. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org