Doug Stewart wrote:
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Martin Stone wrote:
| Doug Stewart wrote:
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|> Martin Stone wrote:
|> | Hi,
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|> | I've had the same troubles everyone else has with NVidia and Matrox
|> | Linux "drivers" - mine are exacerbated because I'm SMP and
|> multi-head on
|> | most of my machines. So I was wondering, does anyone have a favorite
|> | video card/vendor for Linux? What I'd really love to have is a card
|> | that can run dualhead driving 2 monitors at 1600x1200, DVI rather than
|> | analog.
|> |
|> | Cheers,
|> | Martin
|> |
|> |
|> What's been your problem with nVidia cards?
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| I've got the Quadro 200 and I've been freezing randomly when running
| SMP... dual 3.2 GHz Xeon here... I don't have the problem when I init 3,
| or when I run uniprocessor, so I just assume it's the video stuff. I'd
| investigate more, but it's hard when you're totally frozen in X :-\
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Hmm, dual Xeons and an SMP kernel... maybe HT stuff is coming into play?
Nope, HT is off, appending "acpi=off apm=off nohlt", you know, the usual ;-)
Have you switched to the latest (2179) SMP kernel? This has removed the low latency patch which causes SMP systems to hang/crash during umount operations.
Do you use LDAP? I've had some issues with LDAP/NSS/SMP and processes hanging on futex's.
-- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
