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?
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.
Regards,
Martyn