Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:46:15 -0500 | From | Joe <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.7.33-03 and NVidia wierdness, with workaround... |
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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:20:03 -0500, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 17:42 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > > Most likely, the fact you have SMP/HT and I'm just on a PREEMPT-UP kernel is > > what's making the difference. There's almost certainly a '#ifdef CONFIG_SMP' > > involved here somehow.... > > Yep! I just compiled my system without SMP and I was able to start up X > with NVidia on my HT laptop (with V0.7.33-04). > > Ingo, do you think this is a bug with NVidia (bad proprietary module) or > might be with something in the RT SMP side? I'll look a little more on > Monday, but if you know of something, let me know. I'm curious to why > it works fine without RT but will not work with RT (and SMP). I > shouldn't say NVidia bug, since it only is a problem with the RT SMP, so > I should say incompatibility w.r.t. RT SMP and NVidia. > > If you are one of those that don't want anything to do with the NVidia > driver, and don't care less if it works or not, let me know that too. > That way I won't bother you with this anymore and will only communicate > with Valdis :-) > > Thanks, > > -- Steve
Nope, I've experianced the same problem without SMP. It also appears to be a bug where if make menuconfig is not run after using an old kernel, for some odd reason CONFIG_SPINLOCK_BKL is set to be on. Anyways, I just wanted to reassure you, this is NOT an SMP bug. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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