Xorg freezes, crashes, locks, shoots and leaves

[Gene Smith]

James Wilkinson wrote, On 09/06/2004 12:46 PM:
> 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?

defaut == "nv" that comes with Fedora.

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

Same card and "nv" driver. No closed source driver.

> 
> Any chance you can try the vesa driver?

Sorry, don't know what this "vesa" driver is.

> 
> James.