On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:38:05PM +1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > On Tuesday, 05 August 2003 14:34, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > Question for the developers: Is there someway to avoid having > > > the combination of vesa and nvidia cause a total lockup of the > > > machine? I have a feeling I may not be the last person to try the > > > nvidia driver with vesa enabled, either as a module, or compiled > > > in the kernel. > > > > I'm running a system with the VESA stuff compiled in; the nvidia > > drivers work just fine. > > > > IIRC you're running with ACPI; try not doing that. > > I'm also running a system with the vesa module loaded. I'm also > running ACPI. Hmm, the only other thing I can offer here is that I had the console screen set to "-g 100x37 VESA_800x600". How does that fit into the picture? Perhaps I could have left vesa in but just set the resolution to something else. Perhaps the machine just has quirky hardware. It is a VIA KT-133 chipset, Athlon-tbird processor. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj_at_charter.netReceived on Mon Aug 04 2003 - 19:53:09 UTC
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