Re: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Sid Boyce wrote:

> Adam Jones wrote:
> >In a futile gesture against entropy, Sid Boyce wrote:
> >>/ Max Valdez wrote:/
>
> >>/ >Been using nvidia modules for quite a few 2.6.x kernels, most of 
> them mmX. /
> >>/ >without problems/
>
> >I'm using it here with 2.6.4, no problems as yet.
>
> >>/ Something strange happened, I shall try 2.6.4-mm1 shortly to see 
> if it /
> >>/ is still the same. I reckon though that I've suffered a filesystem /
> >>/ corruption./
>
> > A quick thought - have you got CONFIG_REGPARM enabled in the kernel
> > config? If so, disable it and try again. (It's almost certain to
> > cause crashes with binary modules.)
> I haven't had CONFIG_REGPARM set in any of the kernels. 2.6.4-rc2-mm1 
> was fine until after I first booted 2.6.4-mm1, then neither would work 
> with nvidia. I also got some strange stuff happening, including 
> checksum errors on the driver and I had to download it again from 
> nvidia.com on two occasions, the first redownload reinstalled  once, 
> then  chksum errors, the second redownload did the same as well as 
> chksum segfaulting, since then it's been fine. See also the garbage I 
> get out of vi in an earlier posting.
> Regards
> Sid.
>
*** CORRECTION *** 2.6.4-rc2-mm1 is the one that caused the trouble as 
stated in the first post. I'm yet to boot up 2.6.4-mm1.
Some of the files in lost+found seem to be kde settings which I noticed 
were missing and had to setup again.
Regards
Sid.

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