nVidia Computer

[B.J. McClure]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 05:32 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Rutger van Haasteren wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:09 AM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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> >> Karl Larsen wrote:
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> >> |         My question to you all right now, those of you that have a
> >> | successful nVidia computer that never crashes.
> >>
> >> 1- msi motherboard, amd 64 bit, nforce chipset, nvidia 256k card, been
> >> using different flavors of suse, fedora, ubuntu, dual boot xp (sons
> >> computer) for 4 years, never a crash or lockup.
> >>
> >> 2- hp pavillion, amd 64 bit, nvidia 128k card, running various linux
> >> distros for 4+ years. no crashes.
> >>
> >> 3- compaq, amd 64 bit, nvidia 128k card, mainly debian/ubuntu 5 years, ,
> >> now myth box, never crashed.
> >>
> >> 4- acer laptop, amd 64 bit, nvidia graphics, 1 year, ubuntu mainly,
> >> never crashes.
> >>
> >>
> >> ~ Sounds like you have hardware problems, its got nothing to do with
> >> nvidia drivers or hardware.
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> > (All ubuntu 64 bit)
> > 1 - MSI motherboard RS480-IL, AMD64 3200+,  nvidia 256 card, nforce chipset,
> > doesn't crash
> > 2 - Same as 1 with ATI card: crashes
> > 3 - Asus motherboard, Intel Core2Duo 1.6 GHz, nvidia 512 card, nforce
> > chipset, never crashed
> >
> > I have had no problems with nvidia drivers (but I did with the ati fglrx
> > drivers). IME, although closed source, nvidia drivers have very good linux
> > performance compared to other brands. The fact that you have these problems
> > as well with the nv drivers says enough I guess. You don't have driver
> > problems, you have hardware problems.
> >
> > Rutger
> >
> >   
>     I don't think so. I have a nVidia problem. I can load the good 
> nVidia driver like I did on Hardy and it will not stay up 5 minutes! 
> Here I can get 3 or 4 days before a crash using the "nv" driver. Looks 
> like hell but it works most of the time :-)
> 
> Karl
> 
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> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> 	Linux User
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Somehow I think the problem is not Nvidia.  I admin a number of workstations with Asus motherboards, Nvidia chipsets and Nvidia graphics adapters.  All play very nicely with either nv driver or Nvidia's proprietary ndriver.
7.10 is installed on all.  Perhaps you have a motherboard, ram or
graphics adapter problem but blaming Nvidia just doesn't pass the smell
test.  Haqve also installed CentOS 4 & 5 on other machines, same
chipsets, etc with zero issues.

Just my $.02.

B.J.

Ubuntu 7.10, Linux 2.6.22-14-generic unknown 12:46:39 up 4 min, 1 user,
load average: 0.22, 0.45, 0.24