Bug 20808 - Nvidia XServer dies
Summary: Nvidia XServer dies
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-11-14 02:14 UTC by Neal D. Becker
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-11-20 00:41:59 UTC
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Description Neal D. Becker 2000-11-14 02:14:57 UTC
I have RH7.0 with Creative 3D blaster TNT2 (riva).  It worked on RH6.2 using XFree86-3.3.6 OK.  The new Xserver doesn't work properly with it.  It is fine until it powers down the monitor.  This is a desktop, but it runs APMD so the clock will keep time correctly.  When it wakes up the Xserver dies.

This is *extremely* annoying.

I saw this same behaviour when I first tried XFree86-4.0, back when it first came out (pre RH7).  Later I installed the propietary driver (available directly from NVidia) and the problem was fixed.  After installing RH7 the problem is back.

I really don't want to install the proprietary version from NVidia if I can avoid it.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-03-06 15:41:23 UTC
It may be extremely annoying, however you can thank Nvidia for that.  Their
card does not have specs available, so all there is avail is the existing
frankendriver.  Your best bet is snagging an ATI Radeon, however that is likely
not in the question..  You might consider posting your server logs and config
to bugs.  Mark Vojcovich may be able to help.

Other than that, the proprietary driver seems to work for people, however I
don't have any proprietary hardware to test with, nor would I be able to do
much with the card if I did - without specs.


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