[Centos] Re: NVIDIA on Linux
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.eduThu Jun 17 13:53:15 UTC 2004
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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 at trinity.edu
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