Did rebuild the nVidia rpms files from source? Otherwise you'd have a lot
of troubles.
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Bastian Voigt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using Linux Mandrake 8.1 on an Athlon 1400 System with an NVidia
> G-Force2MX Card which worked fine for several weeks with kernel 2.4.8-mdk.
>
> As I needed to get the Snapscan e40 usb Scanner working, I downloaded the
> standard Marcello kernel 2.4.17 from kernel.org and built it. After that I
> installed the NVidia kernel driver from their website to get 3d accel
> support under X11. Now suddenly I am encountering random crashes without
> any helpful logfile entries. The machine just passes away sometimes (or
> sometimes often), and yesterday it even crashed the file system, now the
> machine doesnt boot anymore.
>
> How can I find the reason for this? Is it the new kernel? The NVidia
> driver? Or some tricky hardware problem? I just wonder why it worked fine
> with the older kernel?!?!?
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> Bastian Voigt
>
>
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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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Laboratório de Física Biológica
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
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