nvidia driver causing system freeze?

[Susan Macchia]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:25:30PM -0400, Susan Macchia wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A colleague of mine is working with an Nvidia driver
>> (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1) built against Mandrake 10.1 with a 2.6.12
>> kernel.  When he boots the system and brings up X, everything is fine
>> and the X logs show success.  If he kills the X server, then starts it
>> again the system freezes (no remote logging in - complete hung).  He
>> says the driver fails to load the GLX extension.
>>
[snip]

> If y'all can get serial console on 
> the box that hangs, you should be able to see console messages at the
> point it locks up. 
Here is what he saw:

kernel: NVRM: failed to register with the ACPI subsystem
Kernel: irq 16: nobody cared!
Then I get a kernel stack trace!

Could be that we have an older kernel (which we can't change)....

Thx,
Susan
> 
> What kind of card? There were some beta drivers released for testing
> last week (173.08). I'm running 'em here without incident.
> 
> Kurt



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