Well I see nothing in your description to indicate it is a video card problem. The Geforce2MX is one of the most common cards around and is known to work in Linux with either the proprietary 'nvidia' driver or the Opensource 'nv' driver. Do not worry about 'i686' RPMs. Your P3 is able to run i686,i586,i486,or i386 optimised code.
I would still be suspicious of your hardware. You would be surprised how often we get mails like this in which the user says "It works fine in Windows", and then it turns out there is a hardware fault. This is especially true of memory. For some reason Windows seems to be very tolerant of bad memory. I would suggest 1/ Taking out your memory modules (if you are sufficiently technically competent) and cleaning the contacts with a pencil rubber (or eraser depending on which country you live in) Ensure your BIOS is using the correct memory timings for your memory chips. 2/ Make a memtest86 boot floppy and test the memory thoroughly as described in this post http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg94190.html 3/ Another reason could be an IRQ conflict between two devices in your computer. If you have any components you can remove such as Ethernet adapters try taking them out for a while and see if the freeezes go away. If you do have an IRQ problem we can show you how to fix it. 4/ If you do get a freeze. Try to avoid hitting that reset button. You hopefully selected a journalised filesystem when you installed Linux such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS which are much more tolerent of resets than the old Ext2 system. But all the same the 'graceful' way to kill the system is Alt+Sysreq+r Alt+Sysreq+s Alt+Sysreq+e Alt+Sysreq+b HTH derek > > sorry, i filled my profile for mandrake experts and totally forgot to > > include it here; > > -qdi advance 10e mobo > > -viewsonic 70e monitor > > -512 mbs ram > > -nvidia geforce2 mx/mx 400 > > -intel pentium 3 797mhz > > > > everything works great on my windows partition so. i'm assuming it's a > > linux > > > thing. usually while manipulating a window, i.e. minimizing, restoring > > the screen locks. i may or may not be able to still move the mouse but i > > can't do anything to the windows that are up or access the command line. > > which forces me to manually reboot. this happens about every 10 minutes. > > n.b. no funky overclocking etc, i assume linux is managing my memory, > > like i said it's running great on the o/s everybody loves to hate. thanks > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 3:08 AM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: nvidia and man 8.2 > > > > > Lots of people can try to help you, but we need more information. > > > > > > What hardware do you have? video card, monitor, motherboard etc > > > > > > What do you mean by 'freezing? How do you know it's a video card > > problem? > > > > What are you doing when it happens? > > > > > > If you are getting random system freezes my first instinct would be a > > > > memory > > > > > problem. You are not overclocking or using 'aggressive' memory settings > > > > are > > > > > you? > > > > > > Do not be afraid to give too much info. It is better than too little. > > > > > > derek > > > > > > On Saturday 08 June 2002 4:02 am, Rainer wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Rainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:52 PM > > > > Subject: nvidia and man 8.2 > > > > > > > > > hello, > > > > > > > > > > i'm relatively new to linux and just bought a standard 8.2 box. i > > was > > > > > > extremely surprised when my monitor continuely froze, since my > > nvidia > > > > > > geforce graphic's card worked fine on 8.1. i was told at mandrake > > > > experts > > > > > > to > > > > > > > > > download the latest drivers, which i did, but unfortuanately there > > > > were > > > > > > none > > > > > > > > > for i686 architecture (i was told to install the i586). my monitor > > is > > > > > still > > > > > > > > > freezing. does anyone here have a solution for this problem, > > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-
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