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RAPHEAD
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 Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:00 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Freeze while booting a cloned and working system |
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Hi,
I have a very strange problem. I have cloned my well running Gentoo system optimized for systems running Intel Core 2 CPU and Nvidia GPU.
I'm running it on several Haswell and older Laptops. I'm trying to use it now in a pretty old Core 2 6600 based system with an older Nvidia GPU.
I have really nothing special, Kernel 3.18.2 and the following CFLAGS:
| Code: | | CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer" |
The problem is that the system is booting, I see the first starting... [ok] messages but then it suddenly freezes.
Before it freezes. the background color (in text mode) is getting green!
So it seems like it is doing some GPU initialization.
I tried some older kernels but no difference, except the point where it freezes.
I then booted with system rescue CD (also Gentoo based) into the system and
tried to see the log files, especially /var/log/messages. Unfortunately, this file is not existing (I've deleteed it to make sure).
So without log files and without dmesg, what can I do to trace this?
Do I need to enable serial console output of the kernel?!
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Roman_Gruber
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 9:55 am Post subject: |
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The hardware is compatible?
lspci vs lspci existing installation??
I am pretty sure you have a legacy gpu bc mine on my t9500 is 9800m gts from nvidia and it is legacy already too. your processor is much older than my t9500.
I assume you need to use this version or any version which is older for a legacy gpu
| Quote: | roman@localhost ~ $ eix nvidia-driv
[U] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: [M]96.43.23^msd [M]173.14.39^msd 304.125^msd 331.113^msd 340.65^msd (~)340.76^msd [m]343.36^msd [m](~)346.35^msd {+X acpi custom-cflags gtk gtk2 gtk3 multilib pax_kernel (+)tools uvm KERNEL="FreeBSD linux"}
Installed versions: 340.65^msd(19:39:06 10.01.2015)(X acpi multilib tools uvm -pax_kernel KERNEL="linux -FreeBSD")
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver
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REading that you use also haswell with nvidia means you use newest supported gpu with legacy gpus ...
try to boot to init 1.
try to build generic kernel and use that with that box.
in which runlevel do you boot? 5 or 3?
what does rc-update shows? highly recommended to remove xdm from rc-update |
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RAPHEAD
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:35 pm Post subject: [solved] |
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Hi tw04l124,
thx four your input!
The runlevel stuff was a good idea and I tried it but it didn't help.
Then I remembered that there is a possibility to boot rc interactively when pressing "I"/
This has to be enabled in /etc/rc.conf.
That worked and I figured out that the problem occurs when udev is started.
Then it was clear that it has something to be with some graphics related modules.
So I removed /lib/modules/3.18.1/kernel/drivers/video/fbdev completely (there was a folder `nvidia` and `core` in it).
Then it didn't freeze anymore.
So most likely the problem was with the nvidia frame buffer module.
After I switched to some older nvidia module (340.65) everything worked!
Thanks
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Roman_Gruber
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool. Plase marke the topic as solved and the version I posted is for legacy gpus.. |
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