-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-10-25 at 18:16 -0700, Robert Lewis wrote:
In my opinion the problem you are seeing is an incompatibility issue that surfaced with the latest rpm for the x-server talking to the NVIDIA driver. That is I never had problems with the NVIDIA driver until I installed the new X-SERVER. I am hoping that 10.2 will fix it but that is just a wish.
Perhaps.
The problem for me is a complete hang of the keyboard - mouse and screen when two separate login sessions via F7 and F8 are switching back and forth for 8-20 hrs. I can remotely login and do whatever I want at that point but in the end a reboot is the only solution as init 3 -> init 5 doesn't work nor does and init 1 and back to init 5.
Similar thing, but crashing much sooner, within an hour. I could crash it instantly trying to resize columns in konqueror in a gnome session. The screen and keyboard freezes, the mouse moves. I could log in by ssh, and I had to kill 'X' to restore some live to it, but in the end I had to reboot. I could reproduce the crash twice. Also, trying to start "zapping" (gnome tv application, version zapping-0.10cvs6-1) crashes solid the whole system instantly. This version of zapping can only work in overlay mode. Version cvs4 can work in capture mode, and crashes when switching to overlay. The crashes were reproducible. The solid crash was so bad that I lost data in home and the rpm database :-( On the other hand, in 9.3 it is zapping which crashes; but I remember I had problems with zapping in 9.3 a year ago and I had to compile another version, maybe 0.7 or perhaps cvs4, I don't remember. All this with the proprietary driver, there are no problems with the open driver.
For now I have killed the 3D nvidia driver and gone back to the nv driver and I don't see the above problem.
Yes, in 10.1 that's what I do, certainly. But I wanted to relax a bit playing a game for a while, but it is impossible. Not with the 3D games I like. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFQITjtTMYHG2NR9URAm7kAJ413xEHVzXLYmWlQ7iWMMdfSE1tywCdEnRo QC+tx4+eEkHREwyEELffbUU= =TCWt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----