[TriLUG] FC1, nvidia, switch to console causes fatal system lock

[Kevin Sonney]

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"Timothy A. Chagnon" <tchagnon at nc.rr.com> writes:
> The last thing I did last night was set CC=gcc32 before building the
> nvidia driver again.  I'll have to wait a day or two to find out if this
> worked.  Also I noticed this line in /var/log/messages when the nvidia
> module gets loaded and whenever I do a console switch (and it works). 
> This line only happens when switching _to_ X mode though.
>
> Feb 22 11:35:59 futeki modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> char-major-10-134

Well, you seem to be doing all the right things. The char-major messages
basically mean you need to set up some aliases in /etc/modules.conf, but
are otherwise harmless in my experience.

> This whole thing obviously has something to do with gdm, the kernel,
> nvidia drivers, or X.  If anyone can think of any useful places to look
> for information in my system that would be helpful.  I've looked around
> a lot online and can't find anyone with this exact problem.

Since you're using the NVidia binary drivers, you have two choices :

1) File a bug with NVidia, because as long as you use the binary only
   drivers, no open source developer I know will touch this.

2) Switch to the nv 2-d driver for a while and see if the problem
   recurrs. If it does, then it's NOT and NVidia driver problem, and you
   can file it in the Fedora Bugzilla and hope the fix for the nv driver
   fixes it for the NVidia binary driver as well. 

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