On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 12:01:42PM -0400, Susan Kleinmann wrote: > This past weekend, I noticed my system locked up in an X windows session. > This system has an nvidia card, GEForce2 MX, and I have been using > nvidia drivers. That's also my graphics card at home. > > To regain control of the console, I logged in remotely using ssh > and killed X. But that left the screen in an odd state (I guess the > nvidia start-up routine that's executed when X comes up has to be > somehow turned off (how?)) So I had to reboot. This has now become > an every-time-I-bring-up-X experience. I had similar problems. Using closed source nvidia drivers is evil. I know, sometimes there is no choice - and I use them as well... You could try: - use the open nv drivers - diasble frame buffer in the kernel, and in /etc/X11/XFree86-4, if you haven't already - use the newest nvidia drivers Greetings, Oliver, always happy to help his AM ;-)
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