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