nvidia driver on FC10

Vu Pham vu at sivell.com
Thu Jan 8 16:48:11 PST 2009


James McDonald wrote:
> 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)

This laptop does not have options to change clock speeds ( or I do not 
know of them ). It can hang at any time, sometimes just some minutes 
after I turn the notebook on, other times may be hours after.

Vu




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