Have a couple of items I wanted to throw out. Luckily this isn't a question, just documentation.
Decided the other day that it was time to do a full reinstall of my computer at home. It had been running and upgrading for some 3-4 years I think. So I was looking forward to just shedding the cruft and starting fresh. Only problem was when I installed my fresh new copy of Debian, installed the new Nvidia drivers and all, I could not get both my cards to init and display. After a few days of not really intense tweaking of the xorg.conf file, I finally noticed a little error message from the X server. It told me to go check the dmesg for why it couldn't bring up the second card. Once in the dmesg output, I could see that there seemed to be an error. Each time I fired up X there would be a cluster of lines that mentioned that vmalloc failed. So I crank up X so I could use copy, paste, and a graphical browser. I hit google with a paste of the error. Interesting enough the answer was there but from a significantly old post. Seems there are some tweakings going on that have reduced the amount of memory available to the kernel to map in the data for the video cards. Putting vmalloc=256M on the linux boot line, it worked fine and brought up both cards. Also seemed really cool with Grub to be able to edit /etc/default/grub to add the entry to the args. update-grub and then I had it added to every kernel entry in the grub menu. Remember even old posts about kernels long gone by can still be relevant to todays problems. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
