nvidia driver on FC10

[vu pham]

vu pham 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 upgraded the BIOS to the latest one but it still happened twice this 
morning, one when I was looking at some man page, one when I was using 
email. :(

Vu