[TriLUG] Nvidia driver problems

[Daniel T. Chen]

Yup, I'm still seeing these as well. [Horrible] VIA KT133A chipset,
nothing overclocked. The 2313/2314 (just a cosmetic fix, really)
drivers are much stabler, though. Have you tried disabling AGP
(Option "NVagp" "0" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4)? AFAIK rm -rf /tmp/*
never changed the frequency or (un)predictability of my X hangs,
so ...

Drop by #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net sometime in the evenings,
some Nvidia guys are there and can help troubleshoot. More than
likely they'll ask you to startx -- -logverbose 5 and send in your
XF86Config-4 to linux-bugs at nvidia.com. (Don't leave immediately if
no one answers right away. :-)

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:

> I downloaded the latest nvidia drivers for my GeForce 2MX-200 (32MB) and I
> still have the same problem. It locks up the ?kernel? perhaps, but the
> software locks, not the hardware (i.e. NumLock, which is directly to the
> CPU, blinks everytime). To get it somewhat stable, I have to rm -Rf * in
> /tmp and rm -Rf my .socket* in my home directory and then restart.  Since I
> cannot get this stable, I don't use graphical login. If I set the XFConfig-4
> to default "nv" driver using dri, I get no problems, but my games are choppy
> and slow (of course).