Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:16 -0700 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: Justin Smith <jsmith@drexel.edu> Cc: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Subject: Re: Nvidia driver Message-ID: <20031009162116.GA10621@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <1065696044.725.2.camel@localhost> References: <1065629500.864.3.camel@localhost> <20031008195304.D26654@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <1065696044.725.2.camel@localhost>
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On Oct 09, "Justin Smith" wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 19:53, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Justin Smith wrote: > > > If you hook up a serial console, are there any messages that get printed > > out? > > Unfortunately, I have no way of doing this on the machine that has the > nvidia card. > > I think the "random" crashes are actually the result of running screen > savers that use OpenGL. The random crashes always happen when I leave > the machine alone for a while. When I come back to it, it has rebooted. I've also had bad experiences running xlock -mode random +fullrandom ...one of them didn't end up locking the screen, and left X in a semi-crashed state, but did not cause a reboot for me. There's a bunch of stuff in the nvidia-driver documentation about linux compat issues regarding multi-threading and openGL, IIRC. So it seems like the main reason to run the nvidia binary driver, openGL, is suspect. Which leaves us with "seeing the nvidia splash-spam" as our only reason for running it, along with driving external monitors on Dell D800's :) Mike
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