Aaron,
It is a kernel problem. The stack size changed in the 2.6 kernel. You need a version of the kernel with the old 8k stack size. You can get such a kernel from:
www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-kernel-i686.php
As you can see these are fedora kernels but might work on centos.
Actually, while troubleshooting this display problem, not only did I swap hardware, I also swapped distributions. Yes, I tried Fedora, and with my hardware running Fedora, I had the same problem with the NVIDIA display card. I then realized it was some Linux problem and not a CentOS problem.
Even if using a Fedoral kernel would work for me, I think this would disconnect me from automatic kernel updates via YUM.
I got a brand new Voodoo Banshee card off a local auction for less than $10.00. For that kind of money, I would rather not mix and match from different distributions.
Rick
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Message: 2 From: akonstam@trinity.edu Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:53:15 -0500 To: Rick Graves gravesricharde@yahoo.com Cc: centos@caosity.org Subject: Re: [Centos] Re: NVIDIA on Linux Reply-To: akonstam@trinity.edu
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:17:42AM -0700, Rick Graves wrote:
Hello scty library,
I had huge problems with NVIDIA cards on Linux.
The
screen would go blank as soon as X tried to load.
I
only tried using the driver that came with CentOS.
After lots of parts swapping, I found that the
monitor
(obviously) and (even) the motherboard make a difference.
If so what did you do about it.
Finally, I gave up on NVIDIA cards -- I got a
Voodoo
Banshee card and things have been easy since.
Rick
It is a kernel problem. The stack size changed in the 2.6 kernel. You need a version of the kernel with the old 8k stack size. You can get such a kernel from:
www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-kernel-i686.php
As you can see these are fedora kernels but might work on centos.
Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@trinity.edu
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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:04:18 -0700 From: Greg Kurtzer greg@runlevelzero.net To: Petr Klima qaxi@seznam.cz Cc: centos Linux centos@caosity.org Subject: Re: [Centos] Comming from WhiteBox Linux ...
My thought is that simply changing your yum.conf to point at the Centos repositories should be sufficient. The other packages are not needed, but if the centos repos ever move, it would be nice to just be able to update your yumconf packages and get to the new repository.
On a similar topic:
I have seen many people now that actually purchased RHEL migrate to the Centos repos because up2date was too slow and painful for them. And BTW, it works perfectly! The interesting thing was that the Centos packages where we had to fix RH branding/trademark issues had newer released, thus they were updated from the default RH packages to Centos, which means those systems are now free from the RH marks as well...
I wonder if they would still have to pay a license to RH for those systems...
Rick, are you lurking?
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:14:36AM +0200, Petr Klima told me:
Hello
several months ago I install WhiteBox Linux on
several severs, I was
happy, not woriing about upgrading every 1,5 year
as when I use RH 4.0,
6.0, 7.3, 9.0 ....
And then WhiteBox went black, WBEL updates
release slowed down and
maintainer wont help form anybody. Just telling
"If you want quick
updates, build it yourself.".
I prefer wasting time for customizations and/or
improvements instead
of things which can be done once and then shared
in comunity.
So, I try to change may servers from WhiteBox to
CentOS.
I get a lot of help form Milan Kerslager which
shifted form WBEL to Tao.
I just wonder if there are any known issues.
On my test server I only install "centos-release"
and removed
"whitebox-release" and did "yum update" from
CentOS repositories.
It just works.
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Rick Graves