On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 05:46:20AM +1000, zlinw@mcmedia.com.au wrote:
Second point is this particular machines main purpose is a development platform for a real time 3D terrain simulation and uses the NVidia closed source driver. One needs to tread I little carefully on new versions of this (same with the AMD driver). I had trouble getting the version I am using working with a later kernel (3.8 series).
FYI, the latest nvidia-kernel-dkms package version 325.15-1 (in debian experimental) compiles and works with linux 3.10 (packaged as linux-image-3.10-2-amd64) previous nvidia versions were incompatible with 3.10, wouldn't compile. i upgraded to nvidia 325.15 and linux 3.10 about a week ago, has been running with no problems on 3 different machines (with GTX-560, 560Ti, and GT-240 cards).
I am not really interested in ACPI execpt it gives trouble on this particular machine, given the machines primary use low power consumption is a non issue. Sitting right next to it is another machine of good deal lower specs that is used for normal every day work. This message is being writen on it.
OTOH, it's always better to have things working correctly than to have them half working or partially disabled.
It would probably be a good idea to try a latter kernel from the 3.10
yep. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>