Hey everyone,

I currently have deployed a number of SL 5.2 i386 machines.  Due to the 
circumstances, I'm not in a position to upgrade them to the latest 5.x 
with ease.  Lately I've been having trouble with systems locking up hard 
that are running an nvidia card using the 190.42 or 195.36.15 
proprietary drivers.  Dual monitors connected via DVI, twinview.

I've tried a GeForce 9600GT as well as a Quadro NVS 290 with varying 
success.  The Quadro seems to have lasted about a month before locking, 
while the 9600GT is much more often, daily/weekly.  I'm running the 
stock 5.2 kernel (2.6.18-92.1.6.el5) and Xorg (xorg-x11-server 
1.1.1-48.41.el5_2.1).  The systems are generally idle when it happens.  
I'm having no luck capturing log data or kdump data.

The strange part is, having identical hardware in several locations, 
only some experience the issue.

Hardware:
Intel DG43NB motherboards (bios revision doesn't seem to matter at this 
point, running 98,99,104, or 105)
^- hardware revision is the same for all of them: AAE34877-402
Areca ARC-1200 SATA RAID card (latest firmware, 1.48), running 2 320G 
seagates
Additional PCI-e NIC, Intel PRO/1000, running e1000e v0.4.1.12-NAPI
Single stick, 1GB DDR2 (800) memory
PS/2 Keyboard/mouse

I'm curious if anyone else has run into similar problems such as this, 
and if they have found a solution.  I'm looking at trying the 185.18.31 
drivers, which seem to be "certified" for linux by a few software 
vendors, according to nvidia's website.

What driver versions and/or card make/models are people using 
successfully?  Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated.

As I said, not all of them are misbehaving, and I have several with the 
same config minus the video card running fine on SL5.2 and Windows XP 
Pro (SP3).

Getting desperate,
Mark

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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
Digital Systems Engineer

National Electrostatics Corp.
P.O. Box 620310
Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA
Phone: (608) 831-7600
Fax: (608) 831-9591