NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 Linux Driver

Per-Anton Rønning pa-ronn at online.no
Sun Oct 1 12:20:05 UTC 2006


Vinicius wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman escreveu:
>   
>> On 9/30/06, Christopher A. Williams <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 14:06 -0500, Erich Carlson wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 12:00 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On 9/30/06, Erich Carlson <computerperceptions at coxinet.net> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 11:53 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> You're using the nv X driver or the nvidia X driver?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> am using the 'nv' driver
>>>>>>             
>>>>> You might want to try the nvidia X driver to see if the problem
>>>>>           
>>> persists.
>>>       
>>>> I will test that, kinda makes sense, as I don't have a problem if I
>>>>         
>>> boot
>>>       
>>>> into run level 3.
>>>>         
>>> I've been having the exact same problem with my FX5200 for about 3
>>> months now. The difference only is that, for me, the screen freeze is
>>> extremely consistent. I was using the Livna driver packages before.
>>> Since reverting back to the nvidia X driver, I have had no issues with
>>> freezing at all. Of course, I also no longer am able to play some of my
>>> favorite OpenGL games (PP Racer and Foo Billiard, for example) either.
>>>
>>> I was about to throw my hands in the air and spend the $$ to get a newer
>>> card, but would rather not, especially if this really is a bug. Now that
>>> someone else is experiencing it too, I'm more confident that it is
>>> software related.
>>>       
I thought I should intercept this thread and share my experience. I 
bought a new PC 2 years ago,
and I installed SuSe Linux 9.1. (w/ NVDIA)   Quite soon after installing 
I started to experience screen freezes.
(which actually is that the keyboard and the mouse are cut off so that I 
loose control of the PC)
I got fed up with this and the support people in SuSe had no clue, they 
obviously thought I was some nutcase
having such problems. There were no serious efforts to try to find out 
what was wrong.
After a while I installed Mandrake, but that did not help. I followed up 
by installing Mandriva, but that even made things worse.
But after installing FC5  I have not experienced any such problems.  
After FC5 I became convinced that it was a software bug somewhere,  not 
some faulty hardware . I strongly suspected the latter for some time, 
since I had the same problems with two distros in a row.

PA
 




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