Hey Susers (what is Suseonians better?), I still have frequent system halts/crashes due to what appears to be the NVidia driver. Does anyone else have this? Do we just put up with it for now? I feel like I'm a Windows user rebooting my damn machine all the time. (2x tonight). Interestingly enough, my Debian server w/older hardware hasn't been shut off in well over 6 months. :) System: SuSe 9.0 AMD64 2.6.5 GeForce FX 5600 256 MB Regards, -- Jason Vertrees BSCB Graduate Student @ UTMB, Galveston javertre@utmb.edu :: http://www.bscb.utmb.edu
I have found some situations where certain settings need to be set in BIOS to get NVidia drivers stable. On my latest box, I needed to have acpi enabled in BIOS and disabled on boot. also, I removed the "desktop" from boot parms also (for stability). In the past, I have had to force AGP rate to 2x in BOIS for Via chipset. On SuSE 9, I needed to patch the nvidia driver for kernel 2.6 even though I was running the 2.4.??? that came with the distro. In all cases, I WAS able to get nvidia drivers installed and working flawlessly with a little tweaking mentioned above. Hope this helps Nvidia + SuSE = ROCKS!!!!!!!! B-) On Friday 30 April 2004 12:14 am, Jason Vertrees wrote:
Hey Susers (what is Suseonians better?),
I still have frequent system halts/crashes due to what appears to be the NVidia driver.
Does anyone else have this? Do we just put up with it for now? I feel like I'm a Windows user rebooting my damn machine all the time. (2x tonight). Interestingly enough, my Debian server w/older hardware hasn't been shut off in well over 6 months. :)
System: SuSe 9.0 AMD64 2.6.5 GeForce FX 5600 256 MB
Regards,
-- Jason Vertrees BSCB Graduate Student @ UTMB, Galveston javertre@utmb.edu :: http://www.bscb.utmb.edu
I have a similar problem. I too suspected the nvidia driver but it could be something else. Basically my X session freezes and the system becomes unresponsive. I can't even ssh into it. Nothing is written to system logs that I can find. I'm using a tyan s2885 with 4gb ram, geforce 5200, and suse 9.0 kernel 2.4.21-211-smp. Mark Jason Vertrees wrote:
Hey Susers (what is Suseonians better?),
I still have frequent system halts/crashes due to what appears to be the NVidia driver.
Does anyone else have this? Do we just put up with it for now? I feel like I'm a Windows user rebooting my damn machine all the time. (2x tonight). Interestingly enough, my Debian server w/older hardware hasn't been shut off in well over 6 months. :)
System: SuSe 9.0 AMD64 2.6.5 GeForce FX 5600 256 MB
Regards,
Try this patch. It solved it for me even though I am not running the 2.6 kernel. Seems there was some back-ported stuff that this helped http://minion.de/ B-) On Friday 30 April 2004 8:38 am, Mark Horton wrote:
I have a similar problem. I too suspected the nvidia driver but it could be something else. Basically my X session freezes and the system becomes unresponsive. I can't even ssh into it. Nothing is written to system logs that I can find.
I'm using a tyan s2885 with 4gb ram, geforce 5200, and suse 9.0 kernel 2.4.21-211-smp.
Mark
Jason Vertrees wrote:
Hey Susers (what is Suseonians better?),
I still have frequent system halts/crashes due to what appears to be the NVidia driver.
Does anyone else have this? Do we just put up with it for now? I feel like I'm a Windows user rebooting my damn machine all the time. (2x tonight). Interestingly enough, my Debian server w/older hardware hasn't been shut off in well over 6 months. :)
System: SuSe 9.0 AMD64 2.6.5 GeForce FX 5600 256 MB
Regards,
Just to follow up on my previous posting... my stability issues turned out to be memory related. I recently upgraded to DDR400 RAM and it looks like this was the cause of the problem. As soon as I switched back to DDR333 the system was stable again. Mark Mark Horton wrote:
I have a similar problem. I too suspected the nvidia driver but it could be something else. Basically my X session freezes and the system becomes unresponsive. I can't even ssh into it. Nothing is written to system logs that I can find.
I'm using a tyan s2885 with 4gb ram, geforce 5200, and suse 9.0 kernel 2.4.21-211-smp.
Mark
Jason Vertrees wrote:
Hey Susers (what is Suseonians better?),
I still have frequent system halts/crashes due to what appears to be the NVidia driver.
Does anyone else have this? Do we just put up with it for now? I feel like I'm a Windows user rebooting my damn machine all the time. (2x tonight). Interestingly enough, my Debian server w/older hardware hasn't been shut off in well over 6 months. :)
System: SuSe 9.0 AMD64 2.6.5 GeForce FX 5600 256 MB
Regards,
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