nvidia driver on FC10

James McDonald James at jamesmcdonald.id.au
Thu Jan 8 12:44:28 PST 2009


Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
>   
>> vu pham wrote:
>>     
>>> 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. :(
>>>       
>> Have you run memtest on this box?
>>
>> That's usually the first thing I check for when a box is crashing randomly.
>>     
>
> While that's a possibility, the fact that he seems to be getting a
> kernel Oops/panic suggests a real bug somewhere.
>
> Trying a newer NVIDIA driver, or temporarily switching (back) to the
> 'nv' X driver might be a worthwhile experiment.
>
>   
Vu, Is your laptop overclocked? If so can you turn it off and see if 
that makes a difference... (Perhaps overheating)




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