Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

[Alex Schuster]

Dale writes:

> Alex Schuster wrote:

> > I'd also try other video drivers, like nouveau or nv. I think you did
> > not do this yet, sorry if I just overlooked it. They may not work as
> > well as the nvidia-drivers for you, but this way you can rule out the
> > video drivers, or confirm it has something to do with them. I still
> > suspect they are the cause, and there is an obscure bug that only
> > Firefox triggers.
> >
> > Oh, and have you tried firefox-bin already?

> I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work.  It has been so long
> since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them.  I'm
> not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo.  I found the
> link on the xorg site.  It wasn't very useful for me.  I do have
> xf86-video-nv installed tho.  I thought that was it.  However, when I
> change the driver in xorg.conf to nv, no more GUI.  That always worked
> in the past.  Can you give me a light bulb moment here?  ;-)  I may be
> missing something obvious.

Sorry, no, I had an NVidia card years ago, now I'm an ATI user. When I had 
trouble with the nvidia-drivers (I often had, with every kernel update I 
feared it would happen again) I simply replaced the "nvidia" by "nv" in the 
Drivers section, and all was fine, except for OpenGL speed.

> As for Firefox-bin, I'm not sure that would help Seamonkey.  I could try
> it but not sure how that would help.  Seamonkey would still crash.

Yes, but if firefox-bin would not crash, it might indicate a compiler 
problem on your side, or something. Just trying to narrow things. And 
there's also seamonkey-bin. But my guess is those will also crash.

	Wonko