Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Antoine Martin <antoine@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:02:25
Message-Id: 464A02E0.3000001@nagafix.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing? by Bob Sanders
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4 >> Besides, as I said before, when I run anything GUI
5 >> (enlightement, right now), it's fine. I just have to jump in and out
6 >> of terminal really quickly. The fact that it likes to crash after
7 >> starting x server twice makes me think I might have a few damaged
8 >> portions on my harddrive. Does that sound about right? Of course, that
9 >> sounds like it could be a kernel issue too. If I can figure out how to
10 >> "downgrade" my kernel, maybe that will solve it.
11 >>
12 >
13 > No it sounds like a flakey Gfx driver.
14 I second that.
15
16 > Try running a later or earlier
17 > driver, if it's an nvidia or ati. If it's not then you'll need to try
18 > a different version of Xorg.
19 IIRC, there are issues with nvidia and framebuffer modes.
20 Try booting with vga=normal on the kernel command line.
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22 Antoine
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