[TriLUG] NVidia question

[Sinner from the Prairy]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 04:474am, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Ideas?

My experience:
ssh in and reboot the machine.

nVidia's Linux drivers are far from perfect. I've been in the same 
situation myself. Reboot was the only thing to do, as I am unable to 
bring back the keyboard "live" to the Linux mahcine which, otherwise, 
is completely functional and responsive.

I've detected that sometimes, CPU goes up to the roof (99%, in K6-2-400 
with nVidia TNT2-32MB), keyboard gets... "detached" form X... and 
console, only the mouse is responsive (from local console)... and 
nomatter what I do, I cannot bring back the keyboard to life.

Either you use the non-accelerated driver (wich is slow) or just be 
ready to reboot your machine when this sittaution happens.

Of course, I'm less than happy with nVidia's drivers.

BTW, I was told that "older" nVidia drivers do not show this bug. You 
might try:
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123


Salut,
Sinner
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