On Wednesday 12 March 2003 17:44, MAL wrote:
Joshua J. Berry wrote:
... Just make sure you use agpgart (which is an option in the kernel), and not nVidia's AGP interface.
Why? Is this a documented problem?
It is...there have been people complaining about it on nVidia's forums.
... I have seen the odd frozen desktop already, (3 day old install). I figured it was an app I was using, but fill me in....
I've only had major problems when I leave certain screen savers running overnight. What would happen is, RAM would gradually start to
be used up, but no program would lay claim to it. Even after killing
everything off and dropping to single-user mode, I would still have
about 2-300 MB RAM unaccounted for. As this *only* happened when I was running a GL screensaver, I figured it had to be the nVidia driver, and sure enough, there was mention of this in the forums.
I don't believe any official fix/workaround has been found, nor have I seen any definitive docs on what causes the bug to happen. However, since I started using agpgart, I haven't had any problems.
I have the same problem, X gets locked sometimes, for some screensavers, also locks the display if I leave mozilla open for long periods. I have checked the memory, no errors.
I can ssh in, do top and see X at 99% usage of the cpu. If I kill X, the display is hosed, just lines across the screen. I can start X again remotely or if I can switch to a different tty console, but if I kill X later, it's still the bad display.
This is a GeForce3 Ti 500 made by MSI, using nvidia drivers, Via Apollo Pro KT266, asus mb, 756mb ram, athlon-xp 2k, apgart module from kernel sources. I have rebuilt the drivers and glx modules a couple of times.
I don't have the money to run out and buy a different card at the moment, but it's moving up the list of priorities. Any good suggestions for a replacement? Right now, I just disable the gl eye candy and grit my teeth when I freeze the display. It's very annoying.
neal
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