Re: Oopses in 2.4.1 (lots of them)

Arthur Pedyczak (arthur-p@home.com)
Thu, 22 Feb 2001 07:59:10 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > report got ignored). After running for 4 days I got many, many oopses.
> > They were trigerred by xscreensaver, and some other X-related apps.
> > After dopping to runlevel 3, the system seemed O.K. Nothing unusual in
> > graphics: Riva TNT2
>
> That makes it harder to say 'Use a 3.3.6 X server'. If you are using the
> nvidia binary/obfuscated modules for their 3d and stuff try running without
> them.
>
Alan,
Looks like you were 100% right about nvidia kernel module. After I
eliminated it and reverted to the driver coming with XFree-4.0.1, my
system seems stable again. It's been up for 7 days (with NVdriver from
nvidia I couldn't get past 72 hrs mark).
Thanks for your help!

A.

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