Re: Gnome locks frequently

[Ryan Marsh <me ryanmarsh com>]

I thought it might be the AGP module in the NVidia driver. Does Gnome
ever use the AGP driver for anything? 

It might also be that I need the newer driver. I'm using 1541.

-ryan

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 03:14, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 09:47, Ryan Marsh wrote:
> > Uh Oh. Houston we have a problem. I've been having the exact same thing
> > happen to me. I have RH 7.2 and an NVidia card. The kernel that shipped
> > with Red Hat and every one I've compiled after it seem to be VERY
> > unstable. Maybe it's the NVidia driver but I didn't have these problems
> > until I moved to RH 7.2 and I've always used the NVidia driver and not
> > the X one. 
> > 
> > Ever since I moved on to kernels 2.4.9 and above my system has been
> > flakier than the crappiest of Win 95 boxen. I don't know what to do. But
> > it is really embarassing when Linux locks up in front of my friends.
> > 
> > "I thought you said it was stable"
> > 
> > -ryan
> My box is stable
> RH 7.2, NVidia Driver 2313, stock kernel. Older NVIDIA drivers and RH
> 7.1 used to crash when stressing tv and videotext. These problems are
> gone.
> 
> Markus Bertheau
> 
>