On Tuesday 04 November 2008 10:54:24 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
locks-up could be bad memory, perhaps you should run the memtest.
Yup, that's always a good start.
Oct 23 00:00:04 magrathea kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c017d37f>] Tainted: P N VLI
Ah, tainted... then they may reject the report.
Yes, tainted because of the NVidia driver.
The machine has an NVidia card, so the message above might be caused by the NVidia proprietary driver. I need this driver for serious projects (okay, Simcity 4 Rush Hour :-) )
You will have to reproduce without it. If it OOPS, then you should report. And if it doesn't, then you'll know who is to blame.
I'll try to reproduce the problem without the proprietary driver and see what happens. However, it could very well be the video card itself is failing. Since my post above, I have seen screen flashes and an unexpected crash of the X server. I've been using the NVidia driver for a long time and never had any problems with it, so I am suspecting a hardware problem...
Ah, you did say 10.3, I didn't see it earlier. If it is a kernel bug, it might have been corrected since. Try first the plain open driver, then try 11.0 if it fails.
I've been thinking of installing 11 on this machine, especially with the improved package management. I'm just afraid it will lock up on me during the install... Thanks, Carlos! Regards, Joop ------------------------------------------------------------ Dit bericht is gescand op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door MailScanner en lijkt schoon te zijn. Mailscanner door http://www.prosolit.nl Professional Solutions fot IT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org