nvidia driver causing system freeze?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com> wrote:
> 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)....

That points to a kernel or BIOS bug.  If you can't change the kernel,
then updating the BIOS would be a good test.



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