I'm on openSuSE 11.1 with a Quadro FX 1500M/PCI/SSE2 Nvidia graphics cared in a DELL Precison M90 laptop. The Nvidia driver is 2.1.2 NVIDIA 180.51 today. I also used the .44 version with the same problems...
Nvidia crashes on me - randomly. It'll do so once or twice a day. Leaving me with a white/greenish flickering screen with no rescue. Doesn't help to kill the X server, but I'm able to get into a shell with ctrl+alt+F1. This doesn NOT change the crashed screen though. But I'm able to type root/password and hence "shutdown -r now" which is respected by the OS and carried out.
The hardware is ok, I may dual boot into an anciant XP which does not have the problem.
I don't need any fancy desktop stuff, it's disabled anyhow.
Any ideas? Anyone seing this too? Any ideas? What may I do, can I opt for a non-nvidia driver, i.e., a standard FOSS thing if such exists?
Well... switching to the open source nVidia driver is relatively easy. Edit your xorg.conf and change the driver from "nvidia" to "nv" and restart X. I haven't seen nVidia graphics crashing... mmmm except with an older version of KDE4... with some of the older builds.. like KDE4.1.x there were some bothersome problems that caused all sorts of odd side effects... all (most?) of which are fixed in KDE4.2.2 and 4.2.3. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org