On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:43 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: > On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:22 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > > On my Mandrake 10 OE home install I recently tried to > > upgrade my kernel and nvidia graphics driver. That's > > what started this whole problem. > > > > First I installed my newer driver, 2.6.3-15mdk, and > > booted into with no problems. As usual, when I > > upgrade the kernel I need to reinstall my vid driver. > > > > I downloaded the 1.0-6111 version of the geforce > > driver that was released Aug 5th. From the > > 2.6.3-15mdk KDE session I ran init 3 to install the > > driver as usual. When I attempted to run the file I > > got a strange error about a rivafb (something like > > that?) module being loaded but it would be able to > > continue. Since it didn't seem serious I continued. > > The install failed while trying to build the kernel > > for nvidia. The nvidia log didn't produce any > > immediate clues, either. So I uninstalled and tried > > it under my 2.6.3-13mdk kernel. That failed too... > > > > Now, I have no graphics accelleration and I keep > > getting this strange error in KDE: > > SIGSEGV crashed with signal 11 > > ...That is paraphrased, but it appears in the generic > > KDE crash window with the picture of a bomb/gear. > > First it appears when I boot into KDE then randomly > > thoughout the day. > > > > Any ideas here? The errors are annoying and obviously > > not healthy. Plus I can't play any games... > > There seems to be an issue with the latest nvidia release, I have the > same setup as you on two machines and the "6111" driver refuses to > install complaining in the install log about the kernel having to have > "make mrproper" run on it. I tryed this on one computer and no go, so > i grabbed the last nvidia release "6106" and it installed on both > macheines no problem. > Maybe someones else can help with the SIGSEGV your getting but i wonder > if the "6106" nvidia driver might clear that up ? 6106 was where I saw this happening here, so I rolled back to 5336 and all the problems went away. Dual head setup with GeForce3 ti200 agp and GeForce2 mx400 pci.
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