[TriLUG] RE: up2date

[Douglas Kojetin]

Hmmm. I have not had any problems in the past with the default XFree86
drivers working with my video card -- I think originally that is one of the
reasons I got it (because this card was semi-well supported). I'm not sure
if the lockups I'm having are XFree related or not either -- I suppose
trying to run up2date out of X would explain that. I think my problem is
more of a 'hard lock' than an 'xfree lock', does that make sense? 

I'm still not sure why, when using a freshly formatted ext3 filesystem that
when the computer locks up and i restart (turn off/turn on), the filesystem
becomes 'fscked' and I have to run 'fsck' -- isn't the ext3 filesystem
supposed to be better at handling such a restart?  :|

Doug

> Ahh. You may have the problem I do. I have a Not-NVidia NVidia card. Mine
> is
> made by SiS. I've found that I had to compile the drivers not use the
> RPM's
> and it worked fine. I also found the stock SVGA driver for NVidia from
> XFree
> caused lockups.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Kojetin" <djkojeti at unity.ncsu.edu>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 12:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] up2date
> 
> 
> Hi Roy-
> 
> Thanks for the response.  Here are some specs:
> 
> mobo: MSI K7D Master
> video: MSI (nvidia) geforce2 mx400
> cpu: 2x AMD 1800MP
> hd's: 2x 80GB Western Digital (don't know the specific part number off
> hand)
> 
> 
> no particular addon Hard drive controller.  i have not tried to build my
> own
> kernel -- i was just using/downloading the default kernels (including the
> SMP versions) from RedHat using up2date.
> 
> i have not run 'up2date -nox -p' to verify, nor have i removed/replaced
> up2date.  after a fresh install, i literally boot, login as root (maybe a
> no-no?), and run up2date (takes me through the registration process first
> though).  after i run update, it downloads current packages to be
> upgraded,
> starts the install, freezes, and there go the problems.
> 
> any advice?  might the hardware cause these issues?
> 
> thanks for your input-
> Doug
> 
> >
> > Can you send the list a copy of your hardware? Are you using an NVidia
> > card?
> > What HDD controller? Intel? AMD? SIS?  Have you tried building your own
> > kernel and then running up2date -nox -p to verify it works? Have you
> > removed/replaced up2date?