[CentOS] Nvidia card fails with new kernel 2.6.9-42.EL

Sat Aug 26 03:05:46 UTC 2006
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

On 8/25/06, Richard E Miles <r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have a NVIDIA 5200 FX graphics card. After reinstalling the nvidia driver for kernel 2.6.9-42-EL and doing a startx command from lvl 3, the x window software issues a failed to get interupt from graphics driver. I tried to reinstall the graphics driver again and got the same results. I changed back to the previous kernel and reinstalled the nvidia driver and the problem went away. I am at wonder why this would happen with a kernel upgrade from centos.

At the risk of cliche, it works for me, though I'm using a Geforce 3
ti-500. the Xrender extension was causing some locking issues though.
Removing the optional xrender stopped module from causing kernel
panics. Check your config.

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