On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:04:52 -0300 Andre Costa <acosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded kernel to 2.6.8-1.521 recently, and system has been locking > hard when I leave my X session and return to GDM. I use a > custom-compiled kernel, where I only turn off unneeded stuff such as > firewire, RAID support etc. and enable NTFS filesystem, but problem > happens with "stock" kernel as well. > > I just rebooted to the previous kernel (2.6.7-1.494.2.2custom) and > things seem to have gone back to normal. Problems happened both with > latest NVidia driver (1.0-6111) and the one before that (1.0-6106). > > Anyone else experiencing this? > > Best, > > Andre Hi, just so that it makes it into the archives: I found out why my custom kernel was locking _everytime_ I left X. My machine has 512MB, so I was turning off "4 GB kernel-space and 4 GB user-space virtual memory support (X86_4G)" and "High Memory Support". This automatically turned off "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE)", which seems to be needed for some reason (yes, IMHO this is _very_ obscure and should be documented somewhere by nvidia folks -- I will post a message on their forums about it). Once I left these 3 options untouched, I was able to do all the tweakings I needed, and now I am happily running my own 2.6.8-1.521 kernel. Thks to all who replied. Best, Andre PS: I am not using any nvidia drivers aside from graphics now. -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
