Am Freitag 06 Juli 2007 schrieb Alan Ianson: > On Thu July 5 2007 09:02:02 am Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hi dear maintainers, > > > > after the last upgrade my system randomly freezes when running in X. > > > > The main things I upgraded, was the kernel from 2.6.21-1-amd64 to > > 2.6.21-2-amd64 and the Nvidia-packages (nvidia-kernel, -glx and > > -glx-ia32) > > > > I suspect either the kernel or the Nvidia-packages, as everything went > > fine before the upgrade. To verify this, I would like to downgrade to the > > packages before. But they are gone, and the packages in /testing are too > > old. > > > > Where can I find them ? Maybe someone has stored them and could send them > > to me. > > There are no precompiled nvidia-kernel-* packages for testing/unstable > kernels. I used module-assistant to build them for me. > > running the following commands did the trick for me.. > > module-assitant prepare > module-assistant auto-install nvidia Hi Alan !
No, this is not quite correct, maybe I described wrong. The driver for Nvidia graphics cards is splitted in two parts. One is the kernel-module, which interacts with the linux kernel and is beeing delivered in Debian only as source-code. This one can be compiled with module-assistant (which is the easiest way) or with other methods, i.e. make-kpkg or make modules, whatever you want. The other part is the "nvidia-glx"-package, which is main responsible for 3d-acceleration and the graphic functions. This let us conclude: Either the nvidia-kernel-module is responsible for the freeze (the idea, I personally prefer ) or the Nvidia-glx-module sends some output to the the nvidia-,kernel-module, which it cannot work with, or transferres to the pcie-bus, which at last let the system hang. (Maintainers, please correct me, if I am wrong). Anyway, at the moment I had to switch to nvidia-glx 100.14.09, which seemk to work o.k., as with 100.14.11 the system fereezes almost every five minutes, and this is really no fun to work with. Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
