Upgraded my BIOS and then my Gentoo died!

[Lucretia]

Hi,

Just wanted to tell you all something about my current problem.

I have just been trying to get ACPI to work, and was looking in /proc for info. The output of /proc/acpi/processor/0/info was "<TBD>" so I decided to update my BIOS.

So, I've upgrade my BIOS to 1016 (It's a ASUS A7V333 motherboard, which previously had the 1011 BIOS), rebooted, X came up, then hung. Tried a couple of times, but every time I got to X, I could log in, but then it would die on the 3rd icon in KDE.

Tried a recompile of the BIOS with the VIA chipset fixes, still the same problem.

After taking off the options I set in the BIOS so it was back to the original state it was in, I took out the followin line in my /etc/modules.d/nvidia file:

options NVdriver NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1

It seems my machine can no longer allow these to be present.

I looked in /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card and it said that Fast Writes was allowed, but it hung again when I tried this (My graphics card is a GeForce 2 GTS).

Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks,
Luke.

[Matt H]