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Nuitari wrote: |
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> There was some issue discussed earlier about nvidia and 2.6.13 kernels |
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> which basically said to use the unstable (and up to date) version of |
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> the nvidia drivers. |
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FWIW, I was cheerfully using 2.6.13 with nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r6 for |
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some time with no ill effects. Starting as of about an hour ago, I'm |
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using 1.0.7676-r1 but I may revert to the stable version if I discover |
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any issues with my applications. |
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> Did you try connecting the keyboard via the PS/2 ports? |
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> I had the same problem with my MSI board until I did it.Enabling |
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> Legacy USB support also works most of the time. I also found that |
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> sometimes the USB keyboard won't be initialized between the time the |
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> BIOS is done posting and until the linux kernel enables it making a |
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> mess of LILO but it only seems to happen on a boot out of 2. |
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I tried both USB and PS/2 keyboards without luck. Part of the problem is |
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that you need to be able to get into the BIOS to change that setting. |
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And after a flash, it might have reverted to the default value, which |
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may or may not be what you want. That should be a problem that is unique |
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to USB keyboards though, so I was surprised that I had a similar problem |
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with a PS/2 one. |
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> There are plenty of cases where a BIOS updates skip a version steps. |
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Thank you for the reminder. I notice that they skipped 1.6 too. I know |
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that software of any kind sometimes skips a version between releases. I |
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expect there can be any of a wide range of reasons for this, but I |
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wouldn't be surprised if it is at least occasionally because of problems |
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with a release candidate. |
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BTW, the chip came and I'm back in business. There's no place like |
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/home. Do not envy me the two weeks worth of updates I'm about to |
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emerge. Fortunately, I have decided that I can still get away with using |
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1.8 for now (after all that!). |
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I shouldn't have been nasty about MSI previously. I have been very happy |
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with them by and large. And that's based on owning about half a dozen of |
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their motherboards over the last few years. I do hope they resolve any |
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issues people are having with 1.B, though. |
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You may find this even more entertaining than version numbers in hex: |
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You know how big a PLCC-32 chip is? That's right, it's about the size of |
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your fingernail. The box they sent my chip in is big enough to hold a |
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small pizza. |
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