Jarek Luberek wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 19 June 2001 22:52, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know this is just a test release, but you should
> > know that the nVidia driver available from the nVidia
> > website doesn't work when installed on the Redhat
> > 7.1-XFS system.
> > I installed using the Redhat 7.1-XFS CD and everything
> > worked fine (including the XFree86 default nv driver)
> > but when I installed the accelerated nVidia driver my
> > screen just blanks over and over again. I wish I could
> > give you more information, but I had to have my
> > machine back up so I reinstalled the stock Redhat
> > system. I would have stuck with the default nv driver
> > but the accelerated driver from nVidia makes a HUGE
> > difference in performance.
> FWIW, it did not work properly for me (i.e. random lockups)
> until 2.4.6-pre3-xfs.
>
> Greetings,
> Jarek
I am curious if you tried 2.4.6-pre2-xfs? The one patch I kept
mentioning before on fs/block_dev.c caused a lot of problems for me when
it wasn't installed. Every 2.4.5+ kernel I've run which had that fixed
has been completely stable for me (I don't use many of the advanced
features of XFS though, like ACL, or complications like NFS). With that
one patch 2.4.6-pre1-xfs has never gone down on me. I have intentionally
cut power to test it though, and I can't even begin to say how pleased I
am with it (it beats the hell out of all the problems with ReiserFS I
see on the kernel list).
D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
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