Old kernel RPMS

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tir, 15.03.2005 kl. 17.03 skrev Ivan Gyurdiev:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:44 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > > My nvidia driver crashes again - no logs, no error messages, no info of
> > > any kind. Only happens when running OpenGL games after several minutes
> > > of gameplay - screen goes to gray diagonal lines, and the system's
> > > completely frozen. Happens with 6629, and 7167 - 
> > > suspects are kernel and gcc4 compiler (since I remember 6629 used to
> > > work at some point). This is going to be extremely unpleasant to debug.
> > 
> > and this is really no thermal problem? (just asking)
> 
> thermal.. as in overheating problem? I sure hope not - it worked fine
> until recently. I am starting to get suspicious, however, because
> yesterday it locked up with the nv driver. It also locked up earlier
> when not running any openGL apps. So.. the problem is either the kernel
> or the card. I will turn on sysrq and investigate. I see no Oops or
> panic in the log as is..
> 
> -- 
> Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu>
> Cornell University

Try to boot into a really low runlevel (few-no services), and do
something cpu intensive (transcode a video or something). Then wait for
oops'es to appear on the console...

At least you then can rule out video card overheating