Filip K.

Then why Spring BETA 1 works? ;)

I tried IceWM. Crash almost in instant.

There is also freeze in Kubuntu Live and OpenSuse with nvidia driver.

Good news is that Mandriva 2009.1 aka 2009 Spring BETA 1 works :D . That confirms my theory about freeze with any nvidia driver and kernel 2.6.27 regardless of used linux distribution .

No response from Nvidia on forum and email .

At Mandriva Bugzilla they really tried B) .

So Spring, here I come :D.

Thanks Ian. For an idea to use newest driver :D . But not from 'Backports' which is the root of the problem . Forgot to mention it was "x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-177.82-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm

" So I'm testing again. Version "177.70-2.3mdv2009.0" from 'Non-free Updates'

Thanks to Adam Williamson's suggestion the culprit is located a little better now. With nv video driver there are no freezes for now B). Unfortunately this driver is barely usable for my setup (Twinview), so I use 2008.1 for now. I'll fill a bug.

There is nothing in the logs. Also single user mode or in level 3 there were no crashes for a few hours. I use 'ksensors' with 2008.1. Nothing obvious just yet. I also successfully tested RAM and HDs just a while ago.

After I freshly installed Mandriva One 2009 with preserved /home I receive a regular kernel panic or even total freeze in one hour or even less. Blinking keyboard LEDs (Caps lock and Scroll) are the only information about kernel panic. I tried several things. Disconnected Webcam doesn't help. Also no significant change with different kernels:

kernel-desktop586-2.6.27.7-1mnb

kernel-desktop586-2.6.27.5-2mnb

kernel-linus-2.6.27.10-1mdv

It's not connected with X freeze mentioned in Errata. I search reported bugs but I was unable to find anything useful.

uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.27.7-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Thu Dec 11 16:32:08 EST 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ GNU/Linux

Motherboard is Asus A7V600-X. Graphic card is Nvidia GeForce 6200 type. I only have one PCI card (Leadtek Winfast 2000).

I'm not sure what to do. And believe me that this is very annoying . I was very pleased overall with Mandriva One 2008.1 and earlier versions :D .

Please suggest me :unsure: .

I wish that 2009 will be without such freezes for all of us, Filip.

Thanks, Ian.

DKMS modules problems solved. :D

Is the reason for this "version incompatibility" in DKMS package(s) build options (kernel version) in this situation?

Thanks Adam. Forcing modprobe load those two modules :D . In those two cases I suppose this is not danger, is it? It seems that WebCam and nvidia driver works.

How do I make it permanent?

Hi. let me start with my "CANYON CN-WCAM21 PC-Camera" problem. There are also others maybe or maybe not related. More about them later.

That camera already worked in Mandriva ( 2007 or 2007.1), after fresh install of Mandriva 2008 I can't make it work. I guess the root of the problem is that modul is not properly loaded. I will be glad of any tips about it.

Mandriva Control Center shows in Category: Uknown/Others

Identification
Vendor: ‎Pixart Imaging Inc.
Description: ‎CIF Single Chip	 
Media class: ‎
Connection
Bus: ‎USB
Bus PCI #: ‎2
PCI device #: ‎2
Vendor ID: ‎0x093a
Device ID: ‎0x2468
Sub vendor ID: ‎0x0000
Sub device ID: ‎0x0000
Misc
Module: ‎unknown

This DKMS driver is installed:

dkms-gspcav1 - DKMS-ready driver for spca5xx webcams​

This package contains a DKMS-ready driver for spca5xx webcams.

 Version: 1.00.18-3mdv2008.0
	Currently installed version: 1.00.18-3mdv2008.0
	Architecture: noarch
	Size: 1229 KB
	Medium: None

Screen from modprobe:

$modprobe gspca
FATAL: Error inserting gspca (/lib/modules/2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv/kernel/drivers/usb/media/gspca.ko): Invalid module format

Details about kernel:

$uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP Tue Nov 20 08:38:27 EST 2007 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ GNU/Linux

During bootup it tells me that gspca is already in kernel dmesg tells:

$dmesg
gspca: version magic '2.6.22.12-1mdvcustom SMP mod_unload 686 ' should be '2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv SMP mod_unload 686 '

Screen from modinfo:

$ modinfo gspca
filename:	   /lib/modules/2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv/kernel/drivers/usb/media/gspca.ko
license:		GPL
description:	GSPCA/SPCA5XX USB Camera Driver
author:		 Michel Xhaard <mxhaard@users.sourceforge.net> based on spca50x driver by Joel Crisp <cydergoth@users.sourceforge.net>,ov511 driver by Mark McClelland <mwm@i.am>
alias:		  usb:v0471p0322d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
.
. a lot more alias-es
.
alias:		  usb:v0733p0430d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
depends:
vermagic:	   2.6.22.12-1mdvcustom SMP mod_unload 686
parm:		   autoexpo:Enable/Disable auto exposure (default=1: enabled) (PC-CAM 600/Zc03xx/spca561a/Etoms Only !!!) (int)
parm:		   debug:Debug level: 0=none, 1=init/detection, 2=warning, 3=config/control, 4=function call, 5=max (int)
parm:		   force_rgb:Read RGB instead of BGR (int)
parm:		   gamma:gamma setting range 0 to 7 3-> gamma=1 (int)
parm:		   OffRed:OffRed setting range -128 to 128 (int)
parm:		   OffBlue:OffBlue setting range -128 to 128 (int)
parm:		   OffGreen:OffGreen setting range -128 to 128 (int)
parm:		   GRed:Gain Red setting range 0 to 512 /256  (int)
parm:		   GBlue:Gain Blue setting range 0 to 512 /256  (int)
parm:		   GGreen:Gain Green setting range 0 to 512 /256  (int)
parm:		   compress:Turn on/off compression (not functional yet) (int)
parm:		   usbgrabber:Is a usb grabber 0x0733:0x0430 ? (default 1)  (int)
parm:		   lightfreq:Light frequency banding filter. Set to 50 or 60 Hz, or zero to NoFliker (default=50) (int)
$

Also I have problem with nvidia driver. X.org nv works, but nvidia can't load. Don't know why.

During shutdown it says it cannot stop fuse deamon. Not sure if running but I do have one NTFS currently.

I did try to uninstall and install related "dkms latest" packages, but no success.

Thanks, Filip.