BV> Hi all,
BV> I am using Linux Mandrake 8.1 on an Athlon 1400 System with an NVidia BV> G-Force2MX Card which worked fine for several weeks with kernel 2.4.8-mdk. BV> As I needed to get the Snapscan e40 usb Scanner working, I downloaded the BV> standard Marcello kernel 2.4.17 from kernel.org and built it. After that I BV> installed the NVidia kernel driver from their website to get 3d accel BV> support under X11. Now suddenly I am encountering random crashes without BV> any helpful logfile entries. The machine just passes away sometimes (or BV> sometimes often), and yesterday it even crashed the file system, now the BV> machine doesnt boot anymore. BV> How can I find the reason for this? Is it the new kernel? The NVidia BV> driver? Or some tricky hardware problem? I just wonder why it worked fine BV> with the older kernel?!?!? BV> Any help appreciated BV> Bastian Voigt As you did not have trouble with the old kernel (which was buggy actually), installing a "plain kernel" from kernel.org is most probably the reason. Ok it is not totally plain, but it is not mdk either. I suggest you use a kernel from the cooker. You will need to update e few packages (iptables, initscripts and maybe a few more), but the cooker ones seem fine. IIRC, there is an AGP issue with amd systems (but dont remember which ones) . You can check the mail list archives, it was discussed here too. This may be your issue Regards, Onur Kucuk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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