Firebird -> Firefox -> veer to left: Athlon

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:43:07 -0600
Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:


> I have a XP2800 Desktop, nForce2 Chipset, 1.5GB Ram, 120GB disk,
> DVD burner, 6.1 Surround sound speaker setup, 17" LCD monitor,
> nVideo Mx440 8x with 64Mb ram. THe main Board is by MSI and it has
> Kingston DDR 3200 memory modules.

> For 95.5 percent of the time it works flawlessly. Seems on occasion,
> though, when and after doing something that involves HEAVY graphics,
> it LOCKS completely up. 
> 
> Now, I have been installing some P4 2/2.8Ghz machines for a customer
> that have 1GB Rambus, CD/RW, 40GB hardrives and, at my request,
> nVidia 8x 440MX with 64MB DDR video cards. They seem to be doing the
> same thing, so I am guessing that something is going on with the
> nVidia drivers.
> 

> Now, Maybe it's time to look to see if nVidia has any new drivers ...
> 

Lots of reported problems with nvidia and lockups and/or screwed up
terminal sessions (switching to and from X).  I'm using the 5336 level
drivers on my Athlon machine.  My earlier nvidia drivers produced lots
of kernel memory management error messages.  It's nice that nvidia
produces linux drivers, but they're no great shakes with kernel modules.

HTH,
-- 
Collins - Denver Area - 
Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1