Nvidia driver
Mike Hunter
mhunter at ack.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Oct 9 09:21:26 PDT 2003
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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