On Saturday 08 December 2001 19.51, Tim Harrell wrote:
I haven't tried the latest drivers yet but I know that 1.0541 wasn't too stable with X 4.1.0 on my m/c and I would get severe crashes like the one you describe. The old 1.1251 drivers are rock-solid though, even at AGP 4X. Here's some things you can try:
Put AGP at 2x instead of 4x (in the BIOS)
Make sure you use the NVidia AGP rather than agpgart if you're using a Via KT/KX chipset or an Intel chipset. agpgart is unstable for some chipsets (you may want to make sure it isn't compiled into the kernel but as a module instead).
remake the NVdriver from source with the option
make NVdriver BUILD_PARAMS=NOAGPGART
Add the following(just to make absolutely sure)
Option "NvAgp" "1"
to the Device settings in XF86Config, as this is no longer the default with the newer drivers.
Try putting disableapic as an append parameter in lilo.conf if the above doesn't give you a stable system(I know that this worked for several people), assuming you have a single-CPU box.
Be sure to go to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/nvidia_tsg.html for advanced troubleshooting and some very good tips. This is basically the FAQ on using NVidia drivers in Linux.
And watch those MTRR settings!
Good Luck (I'm sticking with good ol' 1.1251 for now)
Thanks, I'll try a few things. The worst part is that these crashes happen so infrequently, and I'm not sure what triggers them, so it's very difficult to know what works and what doesn't. This type of crash has happened maybe four or five times over the course of maybe a year, so even if I don't do anything it could be several months till the next crash. Not very nice for the bug-hunters. //Anders