I don't recall having any problems with 4.2.0 on nForce. I'm
not sure that RedHat's "4.2.0" is really the same as a stock
XFree86 4.2.0. There have be cases in the past where they have
modified theirs. Try an official XFree86 4.2.0.
Mark.
On 3 Oct 2002, Mikkel Lauritsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this bug report has been posted by me before, but I unfortunately
> got sidetracked and never got to follow up on it. My apologies.
>
> Whenever I try to run the nv driver in 4.2.0 on my nForce-based
> PC the X server crashes and locks the PC, requiring a hard reset
> to continue, while the closed-source nvidia driver from NVidia
> works perfectly. Because of the hard crash I'm not sure whether
> the log file is complete, but it does not seem to contain any
> irregularities.
>
> I'm running RedHat Linux 7.3 on an Asus A7N266-VM with an Athlon
> XP1800+ and 1 GB ram. The behavior is exactly the same under RedHat
> 8.0, where the X package according to the release notes basically
> is 4.2.1, even if the version number is still 4.2.0.
>
> This problem might of course be a RedHat-ism, so I have reported
> the problem there as well. Other people seem to have experienced
> the same behavior on different nForce-based boards.
>
> Do you have any suggestions as to how I might try to track this
> one down? In case there is a need for it, I'd be more than happy
> to provide log files and any other relevant information.
>
> Thanks,
> Mikkel Lauritsen
>
>
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