[dundee] Hardy Heron unstable with NVIDIA proprietary drivers

[Rick Moynihan]

2008/6/8 Simon Wells <swells at computing.dundee.ac.uk>:
> Possibly my own fault for using an NVIDIA card, but has anybody else found
> Hardy Heron to be unstable with the NVIDIA proprietary drivers?
>
> When they are not installed everything is fine. Once installed I get hard
> lockups every 12 hours or so which can only be dealt with through power
> cycling the machine. No suspicious entries in any logs after rebooting. I
> have reverted back to using the nv driver but was wondering whether my
> experience was isolated.
>
> Simon
>

Hi Simon,

I'm running Hardy with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers, and haven't
noticed this issue.  This said, I rarely leave my machine on for that
length of time.

R.