infrequent X lockups

[Mike A. Harris]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Axel Thimm wrote:

>o XFree86-4.3.0-37
>o nvidia kernel modules and glx 4363 (later versions have overscan
>  problems)
[SNIP]
>I have had problems with nvidia drivers in the deep past, but these
>were total lockups. The system does recover with killing and
>restarting X, with the same nvidia kernel module running. also the
>nvidia-graphics-glx stuff is not used at all (no slick screensavers
>here ;), so I tend to assume nvidia drivers are not to blame.
>
>Also the system worked without any problem under RH9 until I upgraded
>to rawhide/test3, so I also assume non-flaky hardware (and that would
>probably have caused total lockups, too).

Nvidia proprietary drivers are unsupported by Red Hat.  Nvidia
has web forums for discussion of problems and technical support
for their users however which you might find useful.  If you
report problems there, most likely Nvidia will fix them for their
next driver release once Fedora Core 1 is officially released.

Hope this helps.


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OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat