problem with nvidia graphics card and -current

[Glenn Johnson]

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.net