Subject: Re: Problem with nvidia
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Date: 2003-07-08 23:12:00 GMT (5 years, 51 weeks, 5 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes ago)
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >On Tuesday 08 July 2003 20:15, Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: > > >>In the kernel, the ACPI must be disabled >> >>Or, in lilo.conf : >> >>append="acpi=off" >> >> > >Why do you think that? >What has ACPI common with the nvidia modul? > I don't know ! But it works for my problem. I've found this answer on the Nvidia forum. I don't know ACPI neither NVidia driver and GeForce hard.. I have the 4363 driver and if the ACPI is enabled, the kernel crashed (Ctrl + Alt + Print Screen + B doesn't work) but I don't know the link between the both. > >I must admit IO-APIC is a real mad option, causing all forms of problems, but >ACPI? I really need it to get my board running properly (and a lot of people >to). > > I thought ACPI was like APM ? >Long startup times have often some problem somewhere else, like a fontconfig >mismatch, or missing, incorrect /etc/hostname when kdm/kde is starting slow >and so on. > >X starts in less than 2sec, with the latest nvidia-drivers, ACPI and a lot of >other stuff (I am a ~x86 man) so, it is maybe something completly different. > Maybe but for the moment, I can use a kernel > 2.4.19 with the last Nvidia driver thanks to this changes. > >Glück Auf >Volker > > > > > -- gentoo-user <at> gentoo.org mailing list