From: Erik DeBill <edebill@austin.rr.com>
To: "Manfred H. Winter" <mahowi@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:24:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010227232440.A9376@austin.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010227150830.A739@marvin.mahowi.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010227150830.A739@marvin.mahowi.de>; from mahowi@gmx.net on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:08:30PM +0100
I'm having no problems with 2.4.2-ac6, using XFree86 4.0.2 and the
included nv (nvidia) driver. Works great with my geForce2 GTS,
without any binary only drivers. 4.0.2 seemed to have improved
support for nvidia chips.
If it's any help, I'm also using the rivafb for console (although not
for X).
Erik
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:08:30PM +0100, Manfred H. Winter wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Yesterday I've upgraded my 2.4.2 kernel to ac5, because loop-device
> seems not to work in plain 2.4.2. But now my X-server crashes.
>
> When I start with startx, X comes up, gnome starts, sawfish starts. Then
> the system freezes. Even SysRQ-keys don't work.
>
> I use XFree86 4.0.1 with nvidia-drivers 0.96.
>
> I can't find anything about the crash in the logs, even the output from
> X doesn't get written to disk.
>
> Is this a known problem?
>
> I'm going back to vanilla 2.4.2 for now. Is there another way to get
> loop to work?
>
> Bye,
>
> Manfred
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-28 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-27 14:08 [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes Manfred H. Winter
2001-02-28 0:26 ` J Sloan
2001-02-28 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-28 23:33 ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-28 5:24 ` Erik DeBill [this message]
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2001-03-02 12:30 David Balazic
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