On Sunday 19 October 2003 4:37 pm, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 17:54, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 11:41, Juan Quintela wrote: > > > Grrr, NVidia cards are just making my life miserable. > > > Can people please mail me the output of lspcidrake -v and telling me > > > what versions work/don't work for you? > > > > I have an MSI FX5200-T64 graphics board. > > The main board is MS-6570 (K7N2 Delta-ILSR). > > The "galaxy" screensaver eventually freezes X (98% CPU) > > for both nvidia 1.0-4191 and 1.0-4496! > > I can log onto the system with ssh, but > > shutdown does not finish. I have to turn off the > > power to get it to boot. It ends up with white stripes > > across the console when I try to re-boot. > > Now i use 2.4.22-12mdkenterprise, but it was the same > > with 2.4.22-10mdkenterprise. > > I have found that disabling AGP 8X support solves my > problem with K7N2 Delta-ILSR. I have now been running the > screensaver for many hours without any lock-up of X. > (This is with gnome) > > -- Bjarne
Interesting indeed. We built a bunch of PC's with Gainward Mx440-8X cards that crashed @ 8X, but seemed stable @ 4X (up for days between crashes). However even under Windows the Gainwards crashed @ 8X. We changed them for Asus V9180, and they work fine @ 8X.
