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

[Dale]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>
>> Here we go again.  New thread, same problem.  I'm compiling info over a
>> period of time here so bear with me.   Info alert:
>>
> [...]
>
>> Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there
>> and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash.  Maybe some
>> third party thing that works reasonably well.  If youtube works, I
>> should be good to go since the sites I go to are using the same thing,
>> some even source youtube.
>>
> 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?
>
> 	Wonko
>
>
>


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.

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.  Now 
that I have the same tool I was using in Firefox, I'll most likely get 
rid of Firefox.  The download helper was the only reason I was using 
Firefox.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)