nVidia Computer

[Karl Larsen]

B.J. McClure wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 05:32 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Rutger van Haasteren wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:09 AM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>> |         My question to you all right now, those of you that have a
>>>> | successful nVidia computer that never crashes.
>>>>
>>>> 1- msi motherboard, amd 64 bit, nforce chipset, nvidia 256k card, been
>>>> using different flavors of suse, fedora, ubuntu, dual boot xp (sons
>>>> computer) for 4 years, never a crash or lockup.
>>>>
>>>> 2- hp pavillion, amd 64 bit, nvidia 128k card, running various linux
>>>> distros for 4+ years. no crashes.
>>>>
>>>> 3- compaq, amd 64 bit, nvidia 128k card, mainly debian/ubuntu 5 years, ,
>>>> now myth box, never crashed.
>>>>
>>>> 4- acer laptop, amd 64 bit, nvidia graphics, 1 year, ubuntu mainly,
>>>> never crashes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ~ Sounds like you have hardware problems, its got nothing to do with
>>>> nvidia drivers or hardware.
>>>>
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>>> (All ubuntu 64 bit)
>>> 1 - MSI motherboard RS480-IL, AMD64 3200+,  nvidia 256 card, nforce chipset,
>>> doesn't crash
>>> 2 - Same as 1 with ATI card: crashes
>>> 3 - Asus motherboard, Intel Core2Duo 1.6 GHz, nvidia 512 card, nforce
>>> chipset, never crashed
>>>
>>> I have had no problems with nvidia drivers (but I did with the ati fglrx
>>> drivers). IME, although closed source, nvidia drivers have very good linux
>>> performance compared to other brands. The fact that you have these problems
>>> as well with the nv drivers says enough I guess. You don't have driver
>>> problems, you have hardware problems.
>>>
>>> Rutger
>>>
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>>     I don't think so. I have a nVidia problem. I can load the good 
>> nVidia driver like I did on Hardy and it will not stay up 5 minutes! 
>> Here I can get 3 or 4 days before a crash using the "nv" driver. Looks 
>> like hell but it works most of the time :-)
>>
>> Karl
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>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> 	Linux User
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> Somehow I think the problem is not Nvidia.  I admin a number of workstations with Asus motherboards, Nvidia chipsets and Nvidia graphics adapters.  All play very nicely with either nv driver or Nvidia's proprietary ndriver.
> 7.10 is installed on all.  Perhaps you have a motherboard, ram or
> graphics adapter problem but blaming Nvidia just doesn't pass the smell
> test.  Haqve also installed CentOS 4 & 5 on other machines, same
> chipsets, etc with zero issues.
>
> Just my $.02.
>
> B.J.
>
> Ubuntu 7.10, Linux 2.6.22-14-generic unknown 12:46:39 up 4 min, 1 user,
> load average: 0.22, 0.45, 0.24
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>
>   
    Hi BJ, please if you can do lspci | grep nVidia and send me the line 
for the video device and include the video type number. Mine is a 6300 
on my motherboard and am trying to see if that might be the problem.

    Will be very interested in the results.

Karl


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