Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

Mel wrote:
There's 3 things left I can think of:
- weird module clash
- bug in nvidia-driver (I assume you're running Xorg 7.x)
- driver was not built against running kernel

I'm seeing a similar problem, but my system spontaneously reboots whenever it uses any 3D - for example any of the 3D xscreensaver modules in full screen mode. I'm running 7.0-CURRENT and just realised I have PREEMPTION enabled since it's now in GENERIC. I remember a while ago this caused stability problems with the nvidia driver - does anyone know if this could still be a problem? I think there's more going on however, since the driver doesn't seem to know about my card during bootup (it shows <Unknown>) though it clearly does find it when starting Xorg. Going back to the nvidia-driver-96xx port appears to fix the problems, and that driver does know what nVidia card I'm using during boot.

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Bruce Cran
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