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

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Piektdiena, 2. Decembris 2005 06:53, Michael Pardee wrote:
> Hugo and James, (and any others with non-crashing binary nvidia driver
> systems) 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.

At my end 5336 version have similar issues. Of course any can trap
crash , because dmesg shows oops inside nvidia kernel module. It gets
worse too under load. When 1st head uses Quake4 or similar up-to-date
game, then mate logout, ctrl-alt-backspace very oft crash 1st head.

I am lazy and didn't collect dmesg outputs. may be hardworker
developer will send to nvidia these dmesg every day. You can set up
net or serial console and do it.

"secret" is getting lucky kernel-X-nvidia version set and carry it via
centuries.

Disabiling may help: disable AGP, GLX and so on ...

> 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=GO&Range=1&bop=and&des
>cription=xgi&Order=price I sent them an email asking some more detailed
> questions but haven't heard back.

Just remember statistical regularity. How many money invests Nvidia and
XGI. If Nvidia is unstable, can smaller company beat it? I think code
line count is equvivalent.

Aivils