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From: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: NVidia driver stability?
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On 2003-07-12 21:22 +0000, Will Saxon wrote:
> Well I have to say that about 30min after I wrote in originally, I started having problems. X locked up, but I could switch around to different vty's and also ctrl-alt-bksp out of X. However, when I tried to restart X my machine locked up entirely.
> 
> I am wondering though if it is all the nvidia driver's fault - while my machine has been stable through installation of the nvidia driver it is now being screwy even after removal of the driver. It's basically locking hard after about 5-10 minutes every time I use it, and sometimes I cannot even log in. I guess I don't know what to think.
> 
> -Will
> 

If you have a kernel.good around boot that, and try fiddling
around. There are a few sysctls you can play with (trying to use the
NVIDIA AGP driver may be a good idea too).

I have had a few really odd bug reports, but none that match this type
of behaviour.

-- 
Munish Chopra