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Re: problem with kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
From:
Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:50 -0700
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Franchisseur Robert
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I  have troubles after upgrading to kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 on  all
> our Dell Optiplex 740 with Nvidia graphic card.
>
> The system is very slow, mouse is hard to move and there is the ata/1
> process which takes around 10% of the CPU.
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  459 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S   12  0.0  62:32.53 ata/1
>
> They have nvidia-x11-drv - 180.22-1.0.x86_64
>
> I tried to upgrade to nvidia-x11-drv - 195.36.24-1.0
> but the  server Xorg.0.log says :
>
> (EE) May 26 17:48:01 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
> (EE) May 26 17:48:01 NVIDIA(0):     system's kernel log for additional error messages and
> (EE) May 26 17:48:01 NVIDIA(0):     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
>
> So I have to get back to  Kernel 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5

Could you show us the output of:

rpm -qa | grep nvidia
ls -l `find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko`
/sbin/lspci

Akemi

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