Gentlemen, we have a problem... Okay, ~ a week ago there was a power outage at my place, everything goes down for a day or two. I had recently refreshed my UPS batteries, so I had a chance to put that into the circuit, no biggy.
Since nobody will offer me a job, I was playing Kerbal space program yet again. (not even Don Corleone could get me a job at this point, I frequently joke about the horse head trick but, seriously, I don't think even that would work...) So, after all of two and a half days of uptime, nvidia drivers takes x'-doze down. I was like "Ok, fine, I'll do a maintenance cycle on my machine and all will be good..." So I update the bios, update the kernel, update portage, flush a few dead packages down the memory hole... Ok, my system was in shape again... So, I'm back in kerbal, another day or two goes by, I'm sitting there trying to figure out whether I have enough room in my departure corridor to slot in a contract mission to Jool.. I wasn't even sitting down, just poking around in my kitchen. When I got back, the game was frozen. I had to log in with my PoS laptop which is useful only for this task. I found that KSP, and X'doze were live-locked, presumably on a Nvidia-drivers bug. =( I tried killing off KSP but it ended up going zombie... I tried killing off parent processes, no luck, I then tried shutting down the machine the normal way, no good. I eventually ended up going to the dusty 28 year old power commander thing and throwing the big orange switch labelled COMPUTER (complete and instantaneous removal of power). What's going on here? Nvidia drivers have been stable for years... what's the deal? =\ -- Please report bounces from this address to a...@numentics.com Powers are not rights.
