On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:41:49AM +0100, Martyn Drake wrote:
On 28/09/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
Subjectively it feels like the crash/hang occurs when there's a lot of graphic activity, for example the last crash occurred just as CUPS redrew the whole browser window after installing a printer. Other crashes also seem to be at graphically intensive times and the Gnome desktop does work the graphics harder than fvwm so that might explain why it dies more often using Gnome.
There's absolutely nothing in /var/log/messages, there isn't a syslog.
Nothing in the Xorg.0.log file?
No, Xorg.0.log.old is identical to Xorg.0.log and the end of the file just has the Keyboard and Mouse devices being loaded.
Does anyone know if there are any stability problems with the "nv" driver? Would I be better off getting the latest Nvidia supplied one? I'll do some Google searching on this front but any comments would be welcome.
Can't speak for the default supplied driver with FC7, but I would almost always insist on using nvidia's own drivers where possible due to performance (and stability) issues alone. Don't always go for the latest and greatest driver - take a look around the nvidia forums an
I've found 1.0-8776 to be quite stable.
Well I have downloaded the current Nvidia driver which is 100.14.11 and that has just died on me in exactly the same way. The README file has lots of possible causes for instability listed and workarounds for them so maybe I'll start trying some of them.
Quite a few of the times that it has died have been when the Gnome equivalent of the hourglass is running, that's the little ring of dots running around the cursor. I wonder if that's using some particular part of the display hardware.