On Thu June 24 2004 3:58 am, Alasdair Urquhart wrote:

I am experiencing recurrent crashes with an Nvidia driver. When I installed SUSE 9.0, it repeatedly drove my monitor out of range, since it failed to recognize it correctly. It's a Viewsonic VP191b, and I experienced the problems described by Terje J. Hanssen in his posting of May 23 2004 on this forum.

In accordance with Hanssen's advice, I set the monitor definition to LCD 1280x1024 at 75Hz. This improved matters greatly, but I am still experiencing frequent crashes. These involve both application crashes (konqueror, kmail, kicker), and complete xserver crashes, to the extent that I am forced once or twice a day to hit the reset button to reboot (ALT-CTRL-F1 brings up a login, but then after I log in, nothing happens). I am currently experimenting with LCD 1280x1024 at 60Hz, but I am still having several crashes a day.

System information:

Monitor Viewsonic VP191b Graphics card: NVidia GeForce FX 5600SE Driver: NVidia driver (from download)

Hello Alasdair, about three months ago on one of the Suse lists there was someone with a problem of 9.0 freezing. A reply stated that Reiserfs was sometimes the cause of the problem and that using XFS was the solution. I'd been having problems like yours so when I had a hardware failure and had to start from scratch I used XFS and ran for three months, sometimes 24 hours per day without a problem. But I also switched to a Radeon graphics card. Good luck, Rich

Alasdair Urquhart

-- C. Richard Matson

On Saturday 26 June 2004 13:36, Alasdair Urquhart wrote:

Rich:

Many thanks for the tip on reiserfs. It hadn't occurred to me that the problem might be with the file system. I'll try out the idea as soon as I can.

I have had a LOT of trouble with SUSE 9.0, all of them, it seems, connected with the Nvidia graphics card. I installed the same distribution on my home machine, a SONY VA10, and I 've had no problems at all. One of the first things that happened when I installed SUSE 9.0 on my office machine (with the Nvidia graphics card) was that the mouse pointer was invisible after reboot. This thing just about drove me nuts before I found out how to fix it.

Thanks again, Alasdair AS was here :)