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Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? [message #34549 is a reply to message #34478]

Wed, 26 March 2003 03:48

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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Big Bird wrote:

>> That sounds like a video card driver issue to me.
>>
>> What's the video card? (It's not an NVidia, using their drivers, by any
>> chance is it?).
>
> By any chance it is indeed some generic Nvidia GF4 (whatever Dell
> ships with their 8250) and it does indeed use the latest detonator
> (4191? Something like that) drivers.
>
> Your response makes me hopeful that this might be a well-known
> problem?

The NVidia Linux drivers are notoriously poor. I've had all sorts of
problems with them with TwinView, hard lockups, not setting the mode
correctly for switching between X and a consoles, failing to set the right
mode when exiting X and more. But, being closed source no-one but NVidia
can fix them to work properly.

You do need to be sure that you have the correct NVidia drivers for the
kernel you are using, it's very easy to download the wrong ones, or to
upgrade your kernel and not re-create the kernel interface module for the
drivers.

What happens if you use the generic xv driver supplied with XFree86? I know
you won't get any hardware acceleration via OpenGL, but if you're not using
it the driver might be more stable.

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		Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Thu, 20 March 2003 10:22
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 26 March 2003 08:43
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: dmarino on Tue, 08 April 2003 07:00
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Fri, 25 April 2003 10:39
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 26 March 2003 03:48
		Re: Hard crashes with device,/retain=2 ?? By: condor on Mon, 07 April 2003 14:38

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