On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Matt wrote: m> Hi all, m> m> I run Suse 7.2 prof with kde2.2.2 and qt2.3.1 on a MSI K7T Turbo RAID m> motherboard with an NVIDIA 2 MX 200 32 MB AGP Graphics Card. RAM is 512 MB. m> X as installed with 7.2 prof. not modified. m> I'm also running SuSE 7.2 professional, with KDE-2.2.1, QT-2.3.1 on an iWill motherboard and a Viper 16 MB graphics card. Ram is at 768MB and nothing has changed with X accept what YOU and yast update would do. m> Originally I used the nv driver, but, to gain some speed, especially because m> changing the desktops was quite slow, I installed the new nvidia drivers m> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2313.suse72.i386.rpm and m> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.suse72.i386.rpm, using sax2. The drivers I'm using are the same, installed via YOU m> m> Then, after switching from nv to the nvidia driver, first no change. desktop m> updates had been as slow as before. X did eat the memory away as before. But m> now, when I log out from kde, the screen freezes with a nice black-white m> stripe pattern. Nothing works, no reaction on any keyboard input. I have to m> hard-reboot. m> I have noticed this ame thing, accept mine is colored as green and blue stripes. Exiting X via CTRL+Alt+1-6 does nothing. Only options I have are to do a hard reset or to logon through one o the other computers with SSH and do a 'shutdown -r' there. I also tried doing an 'init 3' but nothing happens, it shows X isn't running when I check with top or ps -ax but it appears and acts locks up from the actual workstation. m> m> My guess is that the nvidia drivers had been installed, but for a special m> reason not used properly at the beginning. The crash did delete something, m> which then allowed the nvidia drivers to really work. But what? m> I suspect the drivers are causing some problem, but I also suspect the the KDE logout has a problem. I have been debating about going back to the SuSE brand of the drivers until I tried doing a quick logout from KDE by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Del which seems to exit safetly back to the KDM logon screen. The reason I suspect KDE as being part of the problem is that when hitting the logout button or pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del it asks to save the current configuration which I'm skipping with the above key sequence. m> It would be fine now, but the crashes after logging out from kde are NOT m> gone, and they surely will cause some damage soon. m> m> So I'm stuck between the crashes at every log out and going back to nv, and m> possibly re-introducing the memory hunger of X, which makes the system m> quickly slow and also forces reboot regularly. m> m> Well, you understand, I would appreciate any ideas and hints to address this m> problem, if possible staying with the nvidia drivers and stopping the m> crashes, and, if that is not possible, to go back to nv but without getting a m> overly memory hungry X again. m> m> -- S.Toms - smotrs@mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v7.2+ - Kernel 2.4.4 Sorry, no fortune this time.