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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051027/5ce91b97/attachment-0005.sig>