Re: Missing a Tux?

[Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com>]

Don Buchholz wrote:

> What sort of "disturbance" will this cause to XFree86?  We use
> "vga=792" on a lot of our systems ... and we get mysterious nVidia
> lock-ups.  We just blamed it on the nVidia drivers, but now I am
> wondering if our choice of using a VGA mode for console isn't adding
> to the problem.

FWIW, if you are running the nvidia drivers prior to the current 6629 
release and using "twinview" their drivers did suffer from lock-ups.

Regards,
Ed

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