> Something glares at me. can you set your BIOS for APIC instead of PIC?
Not sure, but will try.
> I have noticed some instability, filesystem dependent, on the
> binary-only NVIdia drivers from the distro, somewhat but not completely
> removed by the more recent Mandrake-specific drivers from the site.
> The XFree drivers do not sem to be subject to this problem.
Now this strikes me as possibly being an issue. I've run free at various
points today to have a look, and there certainly appears to be a memory
leak from what I can tell... I'll include results here, if someone can
analyse I'd appreciate it:
"free" before starting X (12pm):
[Note that this was after shutting X down, not after a complete system
restart, so it looks like most of the memory's already leaked away...]
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255844 203200 52644 0 11368 76844
-/+ buffers/cache: 114988 140856
Swap: 262544 728 261816
"free" after starting X (12pm):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255844 224312 31532 0 11512 82264
-/+ buffers/cache: 130536 125308
Swap: 262544 728 261816
"free" (6:49pm):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255844 233508 22336 0 11576 86804
-/+ buffers/cache: 135128 120716
Swap: 262544 728 261816
"free" after closing X down (6:50pm):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255844 211584 44260 0 11576 84936
-/+ buffers/cache: 115072 140772
Swap: 262544 728 261816
"free" after restart and no X (~6:52pm):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255844 35752 220092 0 1768 19896
-/+ buffers/cache: 14088 241756
Swap: 262544 0 262544
"free" with X running (7:06pm):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255844 78500 177344 0 2488 41332
-/+ buffers/cache: 34680 221164
Swap: 262544 0 262544
Sorry for the amount of text here... it certainly looks to me like memory
leaks away while X is running, and isn't restored when X quits, until you
restart and reset everything.
This could well be the NVIDIA drivers?
So I'm going to download the source and recompile. I ran this card with
Mandrake 8.0 and no problems, but compiled the nvidia drivers from source
that time. Maybe that's it.
Thanks very much for the help so far!
Pippin
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