Use of NVidia 3D on SUSE Linux 10.0 Crashes System
My SUSE 10.0 system has been crashing occasionally for some while. I have
finally traced the problem to use of the NVidia drivers and my graphics card. The crashes have previously been erratic, but I have now found a particular sequence of actions that reproduces the problem every time. Here it is:- * Start up Googleearth * Zoom in on London, until the roads and railway lines are clearly visible * Now drag the picture upwards and to the left * My system freezes almost immediately. If I am listening to an audio stream (eg BBC Radio) it simply repeats the last second or two over and over again. The only way to get the system going again is to do a hard reboot. As a workaround, I am currently not using the NVidia drivers. I do this by replacing Driver "nvidia" with Driver "nv" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This makes my system stable, but of course I now have no 3D graphics (and I rather miss Tuxracer!) My graphics card is based on GeForce4 MX 440. My motherboard is an MSI 845 Ultra 845 with a 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 and 256 Mb DDR RAM. I have tried installing the latest drivers:- Latest Version: 1.0-8762 and Latest Legacy GPU version: 1.0-7182, but neither of these solve the problem. Can anyone help? Chris Gordon-Smith www.simsoup.info Email: Use the address on my homepage |
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