Suse 10.2 - Intel 965G chipset - NVidia video

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:02 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> This sounds like an intel_agp bug.
>>
>> Specifically which NVIDIA graphics card are you using?
>> Which NVIDIA driver version are you using?
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
>>> I got a serious problem with those mentioned components. After upgrading
>>> from Suse 10.1 to 10.2, the system hung absolutely and rescue mode hung
>>> also.
>>>
>>> The trick it to have the line "blacklist intel_agp" in
>>> modprobe.conf.local. I googled for a while then found that option.
>>>
>>> Before being able to boot to rescue mode in order to edit that modprobe
>>> file, I had to unplug the Nvidia video controllers and use the built-in
>>> video then I plugged the nvidia back.
>>>
>>> I post it here just in case somebody gets to the same problem which it
>>> made me work up to 2AM today.
>>>
> - the one in the office : GeForce 7600GT, driver
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8762-pkg2.run

Yikes.  1.0-8762 is nearly 15 months old.  You should be using 1.0-9746.

>
> - the one at home : GEForce 7300, the driver was downloaded 10 days ago
> ( I do not have it here ) and also 64 bit.
>
> These two workstations have the same motherboard Gigabyte 965G-DS3, bios
> version 7 for the home one, bios version 5 for the office one.

Ahh, gigabyte, maker of some of the crappiest, most unstable motherboards 
in existence.

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