On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 09:37, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:34:54AM -0300, Mike Clow wrote:
> > I know this has prob been asked a thousand times before but....
> > I have recently downloaded the source for kernel 2.6.7 and recompiled with
> > 8K stacks instead of 4. Nvidia Driver still freezes machine on boot. I am
> > thinking I missed changing something in the kernel config. I ran make
> > oldconfig to generate a .config file (based on kernel 2.6.6-1.435) in my
> > linux-2.6.7 dir, than ran make xconfig changed my CPU to Athlon, made sure
> > I was using 8K stacks and left the rest defaulted to my .config
> > file......Booted new kernel, Installed the Nvidia Drivers, made changes to
> > xorg.conf. System freezes on boot. Did I miss changing something in the
> > kernel config?? Any suggestions??
> >
> t is hard to say without knowing more. You did install the NVIDIA in a
> terminal at init level 3? You changed the video driver from nv to
> nvidia and commented out the LOAD dri line in xorg.conf.
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> Aaron Konstam
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> Trinity University
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Anyone noticed that Nvidia has released a new version of the driver for
Linux with support for 4k Stacks.....?
Version: 1.0-6106
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Release Highlights
* Added support for GeForce 6800 series of GPUs
* Added support for PCI-Express
* Added support for GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language).
* Added support for GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object.
* Fixed problem that prevented 32-bit kernel driver from running
on certain AMD64 CPUs.
* Added support for ACPI
* Added support for 4kstack kernels.
* Added configuration utility "nvidia-settings". For details,
see the user guide
* Added a shell script "nvidia-bug-report.sh" that gathers system
configuration information into a log file; the resulting log
file (nvidia-bug-report.log) should be included when reporting
bugs to NVIDIA.
* Added a new Xv adaptor on GeForce4 and GeForce FX which uses
the 3D engine to do Xv PutImage requests.
* View the README (Text Version) for more information on this
release.
