kudzu hangs on latest kernel

[Stan Bubrouski]

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 02:47, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:08, Stan Bubrouski wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 15:42, Jurgen Botz wrote:
> >
> > Yes I had to disable Kudzu as well...last couple versions of Kudzu
> > locked up my machine when booting 2.6.0 (old i know) and 2.6.5 so it
> > doesn't appear that the latest kernel is to blame.
> 
> I had this problem when I was running the nvidia kernel tainting driver
> for my xserver. It only happened when the fancy graphical boot manager
> was being used - it did not happen (even booting to gdm) if I turned of
> the fancy graphical boot manager.
> 

I do use the nVidia driver, but not graphical boot, and the driver isn't
loaded until I start X manually, so I don't think that's it...

> See if the same is the case for you. If yes - then I'm guessing there is
> an issue with the graphical boot process and your video driver. If it's
> a kernel tainting video driver, RH/Fedora will not support it (as I
> found out in my bug report) - if it's an OSS video driver - then PLEASE
> report the bug, so that when it is fixed, I can send the details of how
> it was fixed in an OSS driver to nvidia so that maybe they can patch
> their css driver.
> 

I can tell you there appears to be no video-related stuff going on here
on my system at all when this happens.  And its still happening BTW...

-sb

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