I was running X, on a 2.6.4-r1 kernel with PREEMPT (I know its not stable, but perhaps this can help it make better) Suddenly my screen went black with reddish artifact like things. I then ssh-ed into my box, and looked at dmesg to see what could be wrong. The relevant dmesg output is attached Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 28094 [details] relevant dmesg output
will you attach 'emerge info' and relevent info on apps running before crash. From your attachment : bttv0: skipped frame. no signal? high Is that for bttv video capture driver?
It is indeed a bttv 878 card. I don't think it has anything to do about it though. It looks more like nvidia-kernel that went wrong. I had tvtime, evolution and couple of aterms running, nothing too exciting. I was also running mozilla, which has had a few crashes before this happened.
Created attachment 28137 [details] emerge info
I've had reports that the nvidia-kernel is much more stable when used with kernel >=2.6.5... Please test with that kernel and let me know if your problem still exists.
Preempt and a binary-only driver... Can't help ya here.
