[dundee] Hardy Heron unstable with NVIDIA proprietary drivers

[Simon Wells]

Hi Dave,

Should have mentioned that there weren't any problems withNVIDIA  
proprietary and Gutsy on the same machine which made me wonder whether  
it might be a Hardy specific problem. Not really eager to get to the  
bottom of this was just curious whether anybody else had experienced  
similar. It is the first time I have experienced hard lockups of this  
type with a Linux box, I thought Linux was not supposed to do that.

Simon


On 8 Jun 2008, at 17:49, David Thornton Snr wrote:

> Hi Simon, have been using the NVIDIA proprietary drivers
> on one of my boxes and not using the NVIDIA proprietary drivers on  
> the other box
> With no problems on either. I'm using linux mint 5 RC2 beta 048 on  
> both of them
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Simon Wells <swells at computing.dundee.ac.uk>
> To: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Cc: Simon Wells <swells at computing.dundee.ac.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, 8 June, 2008 5:28:45 PM
> Subject: [dundee] Hardy Heron unstable with NVIDIA proprietary drivers
>
> 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
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