Xorg freezes, crashes, locks, shoots and leaves

[James Wilkinson]

Gene Smith wrote:
> The problem is that X seems to just freeze up at random times. Sometimes 
> it goes for days with no problem. Sometimes it is twice in one day, like 
> today. It also seems to be more frequent (possibly) with the latest 
> kernel 2.6.8-1.521 (and I have kept completely updated with yum).
> 
> My driver is the default nvidia for a GeForce3 Ti 200 card and system is 
> 500Mhz Athlon with 384M memory. It has run other linux systems for years 
> with no problem, e.g., RH 7.2, Debian.
> 
> By "freeze" I mean the keyboard and mouses button do nothing, only the 
> mouse cursor moves. The system does not really crash. The freeze is 
> never associated with doing any particular thing, AFAICT.
> 
> I can go run vncviewer from another box and it comes up and works fine. 
> After "killall -9 X" I can then login again and it goes again. I have 
> seen this with KDE and GNOME (but I typically just run KDE).

Sorry, is that the default "nv" driver that comes with Fedora, or the
closed-source one that Nvidia provides?

Were you using the equivalent driver in RH 7.2 and Debian? The same
card?

Any chance you can try the vesa driver?

James.
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