These are the drivers that we are running - the latest available from your web site. You aren't talking to your average everyday normal users here.. we know our stuff :-) This is repeatable, and is happening on any computer that runs KDM + nVidia drivers with a GeForce2 based machine. You can imagine how many of them there are. It has something to do with KDM and the nVidia drivers. If you run in init level 3 / console mode, they seem to work fine, because the respawning of the X session doesn't happen like in KDM. But by using KDM, and logging in/out a few times, and then trying to switch to virtual terminal mode with ctrl-alt-F1, F2, F3, etc, will pretty much freeze your computer entirely, unless you have the ability to telnet/ssh in from some other computer and reboot it remotely. You know how often Linux people like to reboot ;^) Let me know if I can be of any help. Thanks, Steven On Monday 04 June 2001 05:46 pm, Andrew Ritger wrote:
Greetings, Steven.
Can you try just booting to console (usually init level 3) and seeing if the problems go away? Also, I've attached updated drivers that seem to fix the problem for us. Can you let us know if your problems go away with them? Please don't distribute these drivers... I just want to confirm that the bug is fixed. Another public release will come out in the next couple weeks.
Thanks, - Andy Ritger
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Steven Hatfield wrote:
On Friday 01 June 2001 02:01 pm, Andrew Ritger wrote:
Greetings, Steven.
Could you send us the details of your system (motherboard, video card type, etc...)? We haven't been able to reproduce this in house. Also, if you could find out the system specs of any other users you're aware of that are having this problem, it would be useful to know what's similar or different about the systems that exhibit this.
Thanks, - Andy Ritger
Oh, and could you check to see if this same behavior occurs if you're not using KDM? (ie set your run level to 3 and just do startx)
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Steven Hatfield wrote:
Hi, I am having a problem with the nVidia drivers on linux. It appears that when I hit ctrl-alt-F1-F6 while in an X Session, my system locks up, and my screen goes blank. If I use the 'nv' driver that comes with my distribution (SuSE 7.1 Pro), the lock up doesn't happen. Running the "nvidia" driver + GLX results in a very fast system, with great 3D Acceleration. It's just this bug that is getting in the way of a perfect experience.
Also, when I exit out of KDE2 to KDM, and choose "reboot" or "halt", the screen goes all weird, and I see "movement", and then my system finally reboots. If I choose "Exit to Console", I get the same lockup as I get when I press ctrl-alt-Fx.
I am using the latest nVidia driver from your website, v1.0-1251. This problem was also apparent in the last v0.9-769.
On the SuSE-Linux-E users mailing list, there are several other people who have the same problem, so this isn't just my system.
Good luck, and I hope this helps. Let me know if you need any further information.
Thanks, Steven
Ok, I've recieved about 10 emails about this, from different list members. It appears to be a KDM<->nVidia driver problem. Ben Rosenberg reports that he runs in console mode, starting X with "startx", and doesn't have any problems. Anyone else running KDM has problems. The setup seems to be any number of CPU choices, and a GeForce2 based card, running SuSE 7.0/7.1 with the latest KDE2.1.2.
I can generate this error pretty much on demand, so if you need a guinnea pig for testing, just let me know.
Let me know if you need any further information... and please keep me informed.
Thanks, Steven
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