nvidia driver and dual core CPUs
Hello!
My system is Debian GNU/Linux Etch, with linux-image-2.6.18-5-686.
I have CPU LGA775, Intel Core 2 Duo E 6320,
and I use nvidia driver to get X Window system
with my MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E PCI-E video card.
The X randomly freeze so I start to search the cause of that problem
on the Internet.
I find an open issue here:
http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/37395/93.71_open.pdf
that indicates that maybe this is the cause of my problem.
Here I red this on the 3. page:
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There may be intermittent application compatibility issues with dual core CPUs.
If you experience this issue, first make sure you have downloaded and
installed the dual core patches from your CPU manufacturer and from
Microsoft. The Microsoft knowledge base article is available
at:http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896256.
If you still experience problems you can attempt to work around these
by toggling off
NVIDIA's multithread optimizations using the following instructions:
1 Launch regedit and ...
2 Look in
HKey_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{GUID}\0000
where ...
3 Open the 0000 directory and ...
This will disable multithreading in the driver for all OpenGL
applications.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
4 If you want to disable driver multithreading for all Direct3D applications
In the same 0000 directory, create ...
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I don't know whereof told abowe but I think that that I shell to pass
a kernel parameter in the grub menu.lst to disable multithreading in
the driver for all OpenGL applications, right?
How can I do that on my system?
Are there some patches for the dual core CPU for the linux-image-2.6.18-5-686?
Any advices will be appreciated!
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Regards, Paul Csanyi
http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm
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