Rainer wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 10:50 AM >Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: nvidia and man 8.2 > > >>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, >>>>>
It seems to be the same problem as I had some time back and posted here. The glitch, whatever it is, is in the kernel. My solution (well, workaround) was to reinstall Mandrake 8.0, then do an "upgrade packages only" upgrade to 8.2, then boot from my old kernel. A more elegant (though still not entirely satisfying) approach would be to install your old kernel in addition to the new one (haven't tried it, but it ought to work for downgrades just like it does for upgrades). Sir Robin
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