Re: [coLinux-users] CoLinux crashes display driver on Windows Vista

[Frédéric L. W. M. <lis...@pe...>]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Anirudh Bagde wrote:

> Hi,
> I am quite sure that it is a problem with something related to the ATI card
> and my graphics driver, because my computer crashed differently before and
> after I upgraded my drivers, and both times Windows reported to me that the
> display driver had crashed (previously in a BSOD, after upgrading, as a
> system tray message). Both times my mouse would barely move, and both times
> my screen would go black for a long period of time.
> 
> I went to the link you specified. I opened up an admin CMD, and cd'ed to
> "C:\Program Files\andLinux". There I first ran "colinux-daemon" and
> "colinux-daemon --status-driver". Both commands reported the date of
> compilation (i.e. the former said "Daemon compiled on" and the latter said
> "Driver compiled on") as "Wed Apr 15 18:59:08 2009". I then ran the command
> "colinux-daemon kernel=vmlinux initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0", which
> failed with the message "initrd.gz: The system cannot find the file
> specified". A "dir" showed that the file vmlinux exists but the file
> initrd.gz does not. Running startup.bat opens up another console window. The
> display driver crashes immediately after it finds the TAP-CoLinux driver.
> 
> Thanks for replying; andLinux was just an experiment for me, just to see if
> it worked, and how well it worked. It doesn't matter to me much; I can
> always use VirtualBox in Seamless Mode.

I also have an internal X1200 and it never crashed here with coLinux in 
2 and 1/2 years, using Windows Vista SP1, SP2 and Windows 7. But I only 
have 2Gb of RAM and never use TAP.