nvidia driver on FC10

[vu pham]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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?
> 

Lonni,

I cannot reproduce the crash, it may happen several times a day without 
any pattern.

When it does, the whole system freezes. The screen still show the 
opening applications, the mouse stops and the three LED for Numlock, 
Caps Lock, and the third one ( not sure what it is for ) are blinking.

It is a good idea to upgrade the bios. I will try it today.

Thanks,

Vu