NVIDIA driver and 2.6.11 kernel unstable

[john.preston]

I am running Fedora Core 3 on a Dell 5150 and have been doing so with reasonable (if not great) stability untill the 2.6.11 kernels and Xorg-6.8.2 and the NVIDIA drivers decided to make my life hell.

I cannot use any of the 2.6.11 kernels and the NVIDIA -1.0-7xxx drivers (I'm forced to use the 2.6.10 kernel and the NVIDIA-1.0.6629 drivers) without it just freezing after about anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours of operation. I think this started to happen also when Xorg-6.8.2 was release (via yum). I'm trying to see if anybody has a similar problem but I can't find anybody talking about it.

Can anybody guide me as to what I might do about this.

John

[bytesniper]

i didnt really find anything with google either. when this happens and you log back in have you gone through your /var/log/xorg.0.log file to see if has any record of what happened? have you added any new hardware recently? when it locks up is it completely random or have you noticed some sort of pattern like its when you use a filesystem browser or preform a certain action or it while a particular app is running...?

[john.preston]

I didn't see anything in the log file. I haven't added any new hardware recently. The only thing I can remember is seeing the Xorg 6.8.2 stuff in the yum update and remembering that I had read somewhere that it would be introducing some new features with rendering and transparency. Then when I upgraded to the new NVIDIA drivers 7xxx I started to see this problem.

The funny thing is that nobody seems to have a problem with stability and the NVIDIA drivers and the 2.6.11 kernels, or there just not talking about it. Am I so different.

[oldman_420]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=58443

not sure if this is related.

[john.preston]

Thanks I'll try and duplicate the commands and see if it causes a freeze.

[jrittvo]

Are you using rpms of the Nvidia stuff from a repo like Livna or ATRPMS, or are you going straight from the Nvidia site's package?

[john.preston]

I've used both the NVIDIA rpm's and the livna.org rpm the result is the same.