Nvidia driver install, Now random restarts

[draven462]

Hi all. Recently migrated from XP to Fedora 16. Really psyched, and have so much to learn, lol. I downloaded the awesome Easy Life script and installed the nvidia driver that applied to my 8600GT as well as some codecs. Now, my computer restarts seeminly at random. The screen immediately goes to a full screen picture of the nvidia logo, which disappears and I'm asked for my password to login. Once I log in, all evidence of my previous session is gone. I did not see any mention of this particular problem in past posts. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

[george_toolan]

I don't really think the "computer" restarts

uptime

If this shows an uptime of more than a couple of minutes then just the X server crashed.

Could it be this problem described here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1574003?

Did you install mplayer? So if

mplayer filename.avi

crashes then try

mplayer -vo gl filename.avi

instead.

[draven462]

george_toolan,

Thank you for your reply. I've been really busy and have not had a chance to respond. My X window no longer closes at random. Not sure what I did to change this. Nonetheless, I tried to confirm if having glx set as the video output was the reason for my problem going away. I used

vlc nameoffile.avi -V glx

and always got "input can't be opened" and "file reading failed" errors. Now I just need to figure out why the color of my youtube videos is off. All the people are blue

Originally Posted by draven462

george_toolan,

Thank you for your reply. I've been really busy and have not had a chance to respond. My X window no longer closes at random. Not sure what I did to change this. Nonetheless, I tried to confirm if having glx set as the video output was the reason for my problem going away. I used

vlc nameoffile.avi -V glx

and always got "input can't be opened" and "file reading failed" errors. Now I just need to figure out why the color of my youtube videos is off. All the people are blue

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=278129&page=4