Re: windows=stable, linux=5 reboots/50 min

Andreas Tscharner (starfire@dplanet.ch)
Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:57:50 +0100


On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:57:03 -0800
"Kaleb Pederson" <kibab@icehouse.net> wrote:

> After a recent hard drive crash, I re-installed Linux to a new hard
> drive. After about 2 weeks, my system now spontaneously reboots about
> once per 10 minutes (on avg.). I'm assuming I messed up something in

[snip]
> NVidia TNT2 Utlra (considering the system sometimes crashes before I
> enter X and before the NVidia driver is loaded, my kernel has not been
> tainted at this point).

I still thinks it's the nvidia module. I've had the same problems with
kernels >2.4.18. Someone told me that it has to do something with the
coherency bug. I suggest trying 2.4.18...

Best regards
Andreas

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Andreas Tscharner                                  starfire@dplanet.ch
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