Kernel crash

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Fri Feb 11 18:33:56 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:14 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:07 +0000, Chethiya Ranaweera wrote:
> > 
> > sorry about that. I am new to this mail group and this is the first time I 
> > am asking for help.  So what I understand from this is following:
> > Even though I can boot  my old kernel w/o any problem, after upgrading the 
> > kernel to the latest stable version I may have problems if I don't have the 
> > latest nvidia drivers.  Right?
> > 
> > 
> No. YOU said that you suspected nvidia. Indeed it is a frequent problem.
> I am simply suggesting that you make a change to xorg.conf that will
> take you all of 30 seconds (nvidia to nv). If the new kernel then boots,
> then we know that the problem is the nvidia driver. If, not then it is
> ruled out. With all due respect, this "test" would take considerably
> less time than what has been consumed by this colloquy. 
> 
> Just to be clear, xorg.conf is located in /etc/X11. Change this:
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> 
> To this:
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nv"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> 
> Then see if your new kernel is still DOA.
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Does your system boot in runlevel 3?  Or without the rhgb and quiet
options on the command line.

Bob...




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