Gene Smith wrote: > The problem is that X seems to just freeze up at random times. Sometimes > it goes for days with no problem. Sometimes it is twice in one day, like > today. It also seems to be more frequent (possibly) with the latest > kernel 2.6.8-1.521 (and I have kept completely updated with yum). > > My driver is the default nvidia for a GeForce3 Ti 200 card and system is > 500Mhz Athlon with 384M memory. It has run other linux systems for years > with no problem, e.g., RH 7.2, Debian. > > By "freeze" I mean the keyboard and mouses button do nothing, only the > mouse cursor moves. The system does not really crash. The freeze is > never associated with doing any particular thing, AFAICT. > > I can go run vncviewer from another box and it comes up and works fine. > After "killall -9 X" I can then login again and it goes again. I have > seen this with KDE and GNOME (but I typically just run KDE). Sorry, is that the default "nv" driver that comes with Fedora, or the closed-source one that Nvidia provides? Were you using the equivalent driver in RH 7.2 and Debian? The same card? Any chance you can try the vesa driver? James. -- E-mail address: james | "Face" on Mars proves to be optical illusion -- @westexe.demon.co.uk | NASA now investigating "vase" on Mars.
