[plug] Mandrake 10 locks up(NNH)

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Tue Aug 3 12:10:35 WST 2004


On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:59, Innis Cunningham wrote:
> But for some reason the system locks up after
> about 5 mins use.

Not the screensaver?

> I have read were there are issues with Mandrake 10
> with KDE and Nvidia cards also with the sound system
> and the network/internet.

More issues with NVidia's binary drivers. If you're using those, switch 
back to the FOSS ones ("nv" driver instead of "nvidia" 
in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file) and see what effect that has.

NVidia's own drivers are also very, very picky about which drivers (AGP 
and the like) are loaded in which order, and there are various options 
you can tweak in a hunt for reliability.

The FOSS nv drivers don't do 3D acceleration very well (barely at all) 
but they are dead-set stable and reliable.

This is not Mandrake-specific, nor is it KDE-specific.

Cheers; Leon



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