nvidia driver causing system freeze?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com> 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.

If the GLX extension is missing then the OS is breaking it.  Is he
certain that it was there originally?

>
>  My colleague read that upgrading the BIOS might help, but I thought to
>  ask this forum.

That would be the best place to start whenever there's instability.
If that doesn't help, then trying a *much* newer kernel would be the
next step.  Send me an nvidia-bug-report.log if neither helps.



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