Re: nVidia

Re: nVidia

[Peter]

When I sent this message 7 days ago I noticed it had not left since on 
account  possibly of problem below I could not mail anymore. In the meantime 
I reinstalled RH7.1
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Just when I wanted to write about my problem this message came.

brownh@hartford-hwp.com said:
> A thread is running on comp.os.linux regarding a problem of system
> hang (no keyboard; no mouse; system clock stops) perhaps every other
> week or so.

I just upgraded from RH7.1 to RH7.3 and I noticed that I get this problem of 
total keyboard lock trying to use the programs tuxracer and chromium and if I 
have the xscreensaver daemon not killed.

In chromium the mouse can still be moved, however does not respond to clicks 
and the music continues playing, keyboard locked. In xscreensaver lock-up all 
is blank and keyboard locked, however, my time announcer still goes on. In 
tuxracer all seems to be dead.

My mainboard is P6STMT with a SiS630ET chipset which includes integrated 
built-in video, audio, networking and communication capabilities.

What have I to do to fix this problem which is starting to mess-up my drives. 
I just had to go into rescue mode to do fsck in order to boot.

Regards
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Peter

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Re: nVidia

[Haines Brown]

Peter,

> What have I to do to fix this problem which is starting to mess-up
> my drives.  I just had to go into rescue mode to do fsck in order to
> boot.

I can't offer advice, but merely point you to a discussion forum
archive in which it appears off hand that the nVidia problem is
widespread and that there's no consensus as to cause or correction:

www.mcdownloads.com/

In yourcase, you are sensitive to which app is running, and someone
did suggest that the hang occurred whenever an application requested a
resolution change. 

Apparently different drivers are problematic to different degrees,
some people upgrading them and others downgrading. The most recent
driver I found was 1.0-2960, but I don't know where my old driver was
stored by RedHat 7.2 so that I can find out my current version.

Haines
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