-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of alan Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:54 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > So like everyone else I'm updating the home system here with > whatever the repos have available. Fairly vanilla hardware, working for > years, and I don't mess with it much, either. > > One day 'yum update' offers me kernel-2.6.6-1.435. I reboot to it, > expecting to have to mess with the Nvidia drivers, but I never get that > far- instant reboot. No text, no explanation, just BEEP! and I see the > BIOS re-init. Very funny. > > So I stay with the old kernel, kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2. A couple of > days or weeks go by. > > Today I was offered kernel-2.6.8-1.521. Instant reboot. > > This is no longer a fluke; this is a trend. > > Questions: > > 1. Is anyone ELSE having this glaring problem? > > 2. What can I do to learn why *I* am having it? > > 3. Is this thing going to keep happening? Does it work if you go back to a previous kernel? (They should still be on the list.) If it does not work with that either, you may have a hardware problem. Memtest86 is your friend at that point. He said it worked fine when he went back to the old kernel. Something was broken between 2.6.5 and = > 2.6.6 We have seen this "auto-reboot" too. We also saw that 2.6.7 broke X and how the kernel and X talk to the graphics cards. The response was to set the graphics card to vesa. The ATI Rage XL should not need this as this has been supported since the 2.2 kernel. This is becoming a trend. There seems to be a problem with keeping the kernel compatable with existing hardware. It might be nice to get a group of users together to start an FC2 or FC3 kernel test group so that before a release a large number of motherboard / I/O / Drivers combinations can be tested and the results reported back to bugzilla and kernel.org. Just a suggestion.......... ;-) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.739 / Virus Database: 493 - Release Date: 8/16/2004
