Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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I'm curious about the freezing with the NVidia drivers. I have an athlon 1.4GHz, with a Geforce 3 on a VIA K7T266 Motherboard. When I installed Mandrake 8.1 on this machine, I installed the Nvidia drivers and a vanilla kernel and didn't even know that linux _could_ freeze.
I installed mandrake 8.2 on the same box and installed the NVidia drivers that mandrake include (it was a powerpack), and the box would freeze all the time. Consistently when I loaded any of the KDE GL screensavers and sometimes when I restarted the X server, or played a game.. it was _really_ bad.
So I recompiled the mandrake kernel source for athlon architecture (took out some things like support for the framebuffer device), and installed the NVidia drivers I used on mandrake 8.1 (version 2313). Since then (almost 5 months) I've only had 2 lockups, once during UT, and once while restarting the X server. The Kernel for Mandrake 8.2 is 2.4.18. I run my desktop at 1280x1024 at 24bpp and 85Hz. I've never bothered with the nopentium option.
I'm wondering, do you get the lockup problem on _all_ linux distros u use? Or just redhat 8 and SuSE 8.1? I know somebody running dual athlon MP's + NVidia Quadro and Mandrake 9.0 with no problems.
Also, do u get the problem if you run your machine at a mortal person's res? eg 1280x1024 or 1024x768?