nvidia secret? , XGI, and multi-user Ubuntu packages

[Michael P. <lin...@gr...>]

Hugo and James, (and any others with non-crashing binary nvidia driver syst=
ems)
Can you help us figure out what your "secret" to non-crashing nvidia is?
What nvidia binary driver version are you using?  Could you send us
the output of nvidia-bug-report?
If you repeatedly alternately log in and out of two different screens
at least twenty times, one of the screens will not crash?   What about
ctrl-alt-backspace zapping the screens one after another (waiting 5
seconds in between zaps)  We have always been able to crash things
that way. (might be understandable to crash if x servers exit
abnormally)

Our old implementation with debian 2.6.8 with ruby and nvidia 6629
drivers worked great, but now ubuntu/evdev/nvidia 76** we have the
crashing problem on logout intermittently.  It gets worse with more
than 2 users.  It seems that consoles get corrupted first, then the x
servers are more prone to crashing.  After one of our displays
crashes, we can't start it back up without /etc/init.d/gdm restart to
reset all the cards.

ALSO, I ran across some info on XGI video cards today.  http://www.xgitech.=
com/
They already have linux drivers (with 2D open source) and may release
fully open source (3D included) in the near future.  They are also
very affordable, see:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=3DGO&Range=3D1&bop=3Da=
nd&description=3Dxgi&Order=3Dprice
I sent them an email asking some more detailed questions but haven't heard =
back.

Thanks,
Michael Pardee
Open Sense Solutions LLC
http://opensensesolutions.com