liquorix 4.0-4 & 4.0-5

[carlo]

hi all
did you miss me?
today i've decided to install liquorix kernel as well: everything seemed so appealing
but...
to my discontent when i choose to boot from liquorix i get this message:

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nvidiafb unable to setup mtrr

any clue if it is something i can easily fix, or it's soemthing which shall be fixed in next releases?

thank you

[MoroS]

I hate those low-level issues. Sigh... ;)

Ok, let's see what we can try to do here. What is the output of this command (might need sudo):

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cat /proc/mtrr

[carlo]

i've just found a way to solve it today frm mepis forum (so much to work today.. ::)):

it sounds like:
create /etc/modprobe.d/nvidiafb.conf
put "blacklist nvidiafb" in  it
depmode -ae
reboot
cross your fingers

it should depend on the fact that new liquorix (not that sure though) stuff loads the nouveau drivers in the earliest booting stages, much earlier than x can call nvidia/nouveau/whatever

so far it's working  ;D ;D ;D

what pisses me off is some kernel panic at booting, though i noticed that with previous version of normal kernel it was less bothering, the only way to make machine start pretty safely now is to switch it off as i get the kernel panic, mere rebooting will just change message
odd thing is that once the machine starts i get no freezing nor any other issue

[MoroS]

We'll be getting the 4.0.5 Debian stock kernel soon, so you might want to try that one (I don't know if Pavroo already uploaded it or not) if Liqourix has problems.

[carlo]

oh liquorix does work good, and looks faster than debian stock one...

actually both kernels don't work too good in booting
i start thinking it's the cheap motherboard which doesn't support two ram blocks too good...