nvidia driver causing system freeze?

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:25:30PM -0400, Susan Macchia wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A colleague of mine is working with an Nvidia driver
> (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1) built against Mandrake 10.1 with a 2.6.12
> kernel.  When he boots the system and brings up X, everything is fine
> and the X logs show success.  If he kills the X server, then starts it
> again the system freezes (no remote logging in - complete hung).  He
> says the driver fails to load the GLX extension.
>
> My colleague read that upgrading the BIOS might help, but I thought to
> ask this forum.

Always good to have the latest SBIOS. Any hints in /var/log/messages
at the point the lock-up occurs? If y'all can get serial console on 
the box that hangs, you should be able to see console messages at the
point it locks up. 

What kind of card? There were some beta drivers released for testing
last week (173.08). I'm running 'em here without incident.

Kurt
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