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nvidia stability
nvidia stability
Posted Oct 5, 2004 18:29 UTC (Tue) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)In reply to: nvidia stability by louie
Parent article: The future of Linux multimedia (NewsForge)
Speaking with my gnome bugmaster hat on, for a long time, the only known scenario where gnome could hang your machine happened specifically only with the proprietary NVidia drivers.
He's mistaken, I could easily, instantly and repeatably hang a machine with an ATI video card and DRI deader than a doornail, regardless of window manager, by running some screensaver or 3D FPS...
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Re: nvidia stability
Posted Oct 5, 2004 19:57 UTC (Tue) by Wills (guest, #1813) [Link]
einstein wrote:- I could easily, instantly and repeatably hang a machine with an ATI video card and DRI deader than a doornail, regardless of window manager, by running some screensaver or 3D FPS...
Re: nvidia stability
Posted Oct 5, 2004 22:03 UTC (Tue) by ranger (guest, #6415) [Link]
Easy:
1)Install ati's fglrx 3.9.0 on a distro running XFree86-4.3 on a machine with a Radeon 9200 Mobility
2)Start X
3)Start a 2nd X (ie via KDE's "Start new session" menu entry, or via startx -- :1)
4)Change back to the first X instance (ie CTRL-ALT-F7)
Press your reset button, it's the only thing left to do. It works on every machine I've tested it on, without fail.
NVidia has never done this, neither does the open-source radeon driver from XOrg (which also performs just as well on this hardware).
Re: nvidia stability
Posted Oct 5, 2004 22:19 UTC (Tue) by Wills (guest, #1813) [Link]
ranger wrote:-
1) Install ati's fglrx 3.9.0