On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:25, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote: > Turns out that neither the above or swiching off ACPI makes any > difference. Still hangs. Need to login via telnet and restore the > xorg.conf file. I'll go look in the nvidia forums to see if I can find > anything there. I'm sorry I haven't been closely following this thread. Do you have an AMD processor? A friend of mine has a machine with an oldish AMD CPU (can't remember exactly what) and an NVidia graphics chip. Every time he has tried to install the NVidia binary-only drivers he's had exactly the same thing happen -- the whole machine lock solid when X starts. After a lot of googling it turned out to be a fiarly oft-reported but little understood problem with the kernel, the nvidia driver and AMD, and I found no solutions. If you do have an AMD processor I'm afraid to say that you might be out of luck using the nvidia driver. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================