This why device drives that run in kernel mode are a really bad idea....<br><br>Both NT(VaxVms) and The Unix way of doing things is fatally flawed....<br><br>A Device driver crash should not take the whole system with it...<br><br>I'm not sure what debug options are available to the nvidia drivers, <br>might be a good idea to enable them and see if anything shows up.<br><br>What happens when you but the system under high X server stress,<br>like games or benchmarking? same thing?<br><br><br><br><br><b><i>Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:57:16 +0100, Simon Wells wrote:<br><br>> Hi Dave,<br>> <br>> Should have mentioned that there weren't any problems withNVIDIA <br>> proprietary and Gutsy on the same machine which made me wonder<br>> whether it might be a Hardy specific problem. Not really eager
to get<br>> to the bottom of this was just curious whether anybody else had<br>> experienced similar. It is the first time I have experienced hard<br>> lockups of this type with a Linux box, I thought Linux was not<br>> supposed to do that.<br><br>Your right, it's not, but when you load MB's of binary gunk into your<br>kernel... all bets are off. I have used the nvidia binary drivers long<br>ago in the past and got constant lockups.<br><br>Today my graphics card of choice is a Radeon 9200/9250, solid open<br>source driver support. If I was looking at a new machine, I'd seriously<br>consider on board Intel graphics as that's where all the cool stuff is<br>happening with kernel mode setting etc.<br><br>> Simon<br><br>Andrew<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on
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