nvidia driver on FC10

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:26 PM, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> My notebook ( Dell ) has the Nvidia video controller NVS 130. I searched on
> Nvidia web site and there is no driver for this particular one so I tried
> the one for NVS50 ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.07-pkg1.run )and the next one NVS
> 280, IIRC ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.82-pkg1.run).
>
> The first one complained that my FC10 is using Xen kernel but is is really
> not. I guess that driver is old then it may confuse some new code of the
> kernel with Xen code. So I tried the 177 driver. It installed successfully
> but then I started having problem with my notebook : it may hang at any time
> from 0 to 5,6 times a day.
>
> I am not so sure if this is the FC10 problem or the Nvidia problem. I did
> have FC8 with NVidia driver on this notebook before and it worked just fine
> until I reinstalled it with FC10 and the newer nvidia driver. Unfortunately,
> I do not remember which version of Nvidia driver I used before.
>
> Anybody experiences any similar problem ?

I don't have your notebook, and that's very likely what's required to
reproduce the problem.

Do you have a reliable means of reproducing the crash, or is it
completely random?  What exactly is the crash behavior?

Have you verified that you're using the latest SBIOS?



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