Dear All,
Just returned from vacation and was delighted to see that Centos 4.2 is now on the mirrors. Unfortunately the new i386 version is giving us problems on our dual Opteron workstations with Nvidia graphics cards...
Basically, nine times out of ten, the boxes will hang when they try to re-load X... and just sit there with the keyboards Caps and Scroll lock LED's flashing. The only way out is the reset button.
The working fixes I have so far found are to either use a non-smp kernel (2.6.9-22.EL) or to use the VESA X driver. Neither is a proper solution as the machines are used for 3D modeling.
Non working fix attempts have included: passing acpi=off to the kernel trying Nvidia driver versions x86-1.0-7676, x86-1.0-7667 and x86-1.0-6629 Installing Centos from scratch as well as upgrading Centos 4.1 to 4.2 (via up2date) Trying three different Nvidia cards (Geforce 6800U, 5900 and a MX200) Trying two different motherboards (Tyan thunder K8W and Tiger K8W - both are AMD 8000 chipset based) Trying two different pairs of Opteron 240's and Opteron 246's.
As things used to work more or less perfectly with i386 Centos 4.1 (2.6.9-11.ELsmp and the Nvidia 7667 driver) I'm starting to feel a little stupid - any chance that someone could put me out of my misery and suggest some solutions?
Many thanks
Jake
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 at 3:02pm, Jake Grimmett wrote
Basically, nine times out of ten, the boxes will hang when they try to re-load X... and just sit there with the keyboards Caps and Scroll lock LED's flashing. The only way out is the reset button.
The working fixes I have so far found are to either use a non-smp kernel (2.6.9-22.EL) or to use the VESA X driver. Neither is a proper solution as the machines are used for 3D modeling.
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to try x86_64 4.2? Our graphics workstation here (with similar hardware to yours) runs the x86_64 version (although we haven't moved to 4.2 yet) quite well. And, Nvidia's x86_64 drivers contain 32bit compat libraries, so standard x86 apps get the hardware acceleration as do x86_64 ones.
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:02 +0100, Jake Grimmett wrote:
Dear All,
Just returned from vacation and was delighted to see that Centos 4.2 is now on the mirrors. Unfortunately the new i386 version is giving us problems on our dual Opteron workstations with Nvidia graphics cards...
Basically, nine times out of ten, the boxes will hang when they try to re-load X... and just sit there with the keyboards Caps and Scroll lock LED's flashing. The only way out is the reset button.
The working fixes I have so far found are to either use a non-smp kernel (2.6.9-22.EL) or to use the VESA X driver. Neither is a proper solution as the machines are used for 3D modeling.
Non working fix attempts have included: passing acpi=off to the kernel trying Nvidia driver versions x86-1.0-7676, x86-1.0-7667 and x86-1.0-6629 Installing Centos from scratch as well as upgrading Centos 4.1 to 4.2 (via up2date) Trying three different Nvidia cards (Geforce 6800U, 5900 and a MX200) Trying two different motherboards (Tyan thunder K8W and Tiger K8W - both are AMD 8000 chipset based) Trying two different pairs of Opteron 240's and Opteron 246's.
As things used to work more or less perfectly with i386 Centos 4.1 (2.6.9-11.ELsmp and the Nvidia 7667 driver) I'm starting to feel a little stupid - any chance that someone could put me out of my misery and suggest some solutions?
Jake,
There is a new kernel that addresses this specific issue that has just been released. (2.6.9-22.0.1.EL)
I am building it now, but the kernel updates take quite some time. Should be done later to day though.
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Jake Grimmett -
Johnny Hughes -
Joshua Baker-LePain