On 27 April 2010 21:54, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
Mark,
I don't use nVidia graphics cards and also should mention my
connection to the ELRepo Project "up front" but have you tried using
the kernel independent, kABI tracking kmod packages that the ELRepo
Project provides? [1]
There are three different packages available, kmod-nvidia [2],
kmod-nvidia-96xx [3] and kmod-nvidia-173xx [4].
If you would like to discuss the usage before trying any one of them,
there is a ELRepo users' mailing list [5] and, if there should be a
problem, the ELRepo bug tracker [6].
Regards,
Alan.
[1] http://elrepo.org
[2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
[3] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx
[4] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-173xx
[5] http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo
[6] http://elrepo.org/bugs/main_page.php
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