Kernel 2.6.7 and NVIDIA

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

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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