I am using the default nv driver. I too am using a Sony Vaio. Also, this happens while I'm working and I'm not doing anything special. Realy, my question is how can I diagnose what happened to cause the crash. I hear a moment (3 seconds or so) of intense disk activity right before the freeze so I think something is being logged (similar to XP Dumplog). Is there some tool I can use to explore what happened before the freeze? I've looked at dmesg but it seems to start over with the reboot. Can I put something in the grub boot command that will enable some kind of logging in case of a crash? I've already had my crash for today so I suspect it'll be tomorrow before I crash again. On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:36:10 -0500, David Cary Hart <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 12:12 -0500, Matt Nuzum wrote: > > My computer is a P4 1.6GHz 384MB Ram, NVidia (using default nv module) > > system that is dual boot XP Home SP2 and FC3. I've used RH9,FC1,FC2 > > and now FC3 on this computer. I'm not having the problem freezing in > > Windows and I didn't have it with FC2 or prior versions. > > Do you have the same problems with the generic "nv" driver? I am going > to guess that the nvidia driver could be the problem. There are just so > many variables. For me (YMMV - YMMV!) the most stable conditions (on my > Sony Vaio) are achieved as follows: > -- Matthew Nuzum <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> www.followers.net - Makers of "Elite Content Management System" View samples of Elite CMS in action by visiting http://www.followers.net/portfolio/
