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

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- Michael Pardee <lin...@gr...>
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? 

7167

> 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?   

I run one machine, many partitions. I install
partitions from script, so they get identical
software, different kernel. Machine: Athlon
Thoroughbred CPU, AGP TNT2, PCI MX-440. Right now I am
back on 2.6.9-ruby.vz11 because of what James said.
Normally I am on 2.6.14-ck6 + Faketty. I find crashing
X small problem: at times complains of *no screens*
and I have to restart gdm.

2.6.9-ruby.vz11 has mouse evdev hickups. 2.6.14-ck6
does not.

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)
> 

Depends on whether server is restarted or not.
Normally no prob.


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



		
__________________________________________ 
Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. 
Just $16.99/mo. or less. 
dsl.yahoo.com