Russ Allbery wrote: > Szymon Janc <szy...@janc.net.pl> writes: ... >> Including nvidia module in initramfs solved all my issues at that time >> (module was loaded ~5 seconds earlier). Yet, on driver upgrade if I >> forgot to update initramfs manually, xserver didn't start because of >> nvidia module version mismatch. > > Oh! Interesting! We're having that problem again right now, and it > didn't occur to me that including the module in initramfs might fix it. > We may actually want to recommend that people do this.
At least for gdm I don't think this will help because gdm startup fails (reproducable or never) independently on whether the module was previously loaded. So eventually this is some kind of a race condition for kdm: * the timeout is just sufficient - if the module was previously loaded - to load the module and initialize the card if nothing else eats cpu time * the timeout is insufficient - to load the module and initialize the card while many parallel startup operations happen because fewer cpu operations (I don't want to say 'time' here) are available - on slow systems (e.g. slow I/O (DVD) or emulated as Josef Spillner reported) that don't get enough cpu operations for initialization while the wall clock time runs at full speed. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org