Re: Random system freezes - need your input
On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:09:57 +0200, Matthias wrote in message
<[🔎] CABo4i4yGehV6S-O09jGLHFSrHxn0aeqFzt9SaK+P5Scx8pAxkQ@mail.gmail.com>:
> 2012/5/4 Curt <curty@free.fr>:
> > Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the
> > nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest
> > stable kernel, try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any
> > apply:
>
> Okay, I'll give the latest version a try. Let's see how stable that
> one is... also I've created a thread on the nvidia forum.
>
> $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 295.49 Mon Apr 30
> 23:46:33 PDT 2012
> GCC version: gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)
>
> > But as the driver is closed-source, non-free, proprietary, and as
> > Bob Proulx would say, evil, debian development people can't help
> > you if the problem fails to be resolved.
> >
> > That is life, as my late mother used to say, in the big city.
> >
> > ;-)
>
> Hm, I can feel some malicious pleasure there... ;-)
>
> Any real alternatives (in terms of performance, support, opensource
> drivers) to nvidia?
..you did try nouveau?
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