On Mon, 2024-07-08 at 17:46 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 07:07:26PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
I recently installed Debian 12.5 with kernel 6.5.0.0 on an antique
Dell
Vostro 1700. Occasionally it crashes with
"Kernel Panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer
earlier
and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer"
Hi,
As suggested, use the Debian 6.1 kernel.
This is a laptop from around 2008 if I'm reading the spec. correctly.
This is a laptop with an older Nvidia card. How did you install it?
Did you try to install the Nvidia drivers at any point? I can't
find out whether this is one of the machines that has dual chipsets
(one Intel / one Nvidia). If so, have you used the instructions
for bumblebee/primus or whatever the appropriate magic now is?
I tried unsuccessfully to install the NVidia 340 driver from the NVidia
drivers page. I found a SourceForge/GitHub page by MeowIce that had the
patched driver, but not for kernel 6.1, so I installed 6.5.0.0 from backports-bookworm and the patched NVidia 340 driver. That also didn't
work, so I reinstalled bog-standard Debian 12.5 with the 6.1 kernel
using the net-install ISO from the Debian site. It doesn't have dual
graphic chipsets. The video driver is nouveau.
I saw some remarks about this from 2013 in the context of release
3.5.
Is this a problem in the kernel, or is the computer broken?
Should I revert to an earlier release?
Ideally, if you're running Debian stable, don't revert to prior
versions.
Apt-get update to ensure that you're running the latest point
release.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy
(amacater@debian.org)
<html><head></head><body><div>On Mon, 2024-07-08 at 17:46 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 07:07:26PM -0700, Van Snyder
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I recently installed Debian 12.5 with kernel 6.5.0.0 on an antique Dell<br></div><div>Vostro 1700. Occasionally it crashes with<br></
<div><br></div><div>"Kernel Panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier<br></div><div>and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer"<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><
As suggested, use the Debian 6.1 kernel.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This is a laptop from around 2008 if I'm reading the spec. correctly.<br></div><div>This is a laptop with an older Nvidia card. How did you install it?<br></div><div>Did you try to
install the Nvidia drivers at any point? I can't <br></div><div>find out whether this is one of the machines that has dual chipsets<br></div><div>(one Intel / one Nvidia). If so, have you used the instructions<br></div><div>for bumblebee/primus or
whatever the appropriate magic now is?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I tried unsuccessfully to install the NVidia 340 driver from the NVidia drivers page. I found a SourceForge/GitHub page by MeowIce that had the patched driver, but not for
kernel 6.1, so I installed 6.5.0.0 from backports-bookworm and the patched NVidia 340 driver. That also didn't work, so I reinstalled bog-standard Debian 12.5 with the 6.1 kernel using the net-install ISO from the Debian site. It doesn't have dual
graphic chipsets. The video driver is nouveau.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I saw some remarks about this from 2013 in the context of release 3.5.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is this a problem in the kernel, or is the computer broken?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Should I revert to an earlier
release?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ideally, if you're running Debian stable, don't revert to prior versions.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Apt-get update to ensure that you're running the latest point release.<
</div><div><br></div><div>All the very best, as ever,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Andy<br></div><div>(<a href="mailto:amacater@debian.org">amacater@debian.org</a>) <br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></
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