On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 at 3:02pm, Jake Grimmett wrote
Basically, nine times out of ten, the boxes will hang when they try to re-load X... and just sit there with the keyboards Caps and Scroll lock LED's flashing. The only way out is the reset button.
The working fixes I have so far found are to either use a non-smp kernel (2.6.9-22.EL) or to use the VESA X driver. Neither is a proper solution as the machines are used for 3D modeling.
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to try x86_64 4.2? Our graphics workstation here (with similar hardware to yours) runs the x86_64 version (although we haven't moved to 4.2 yet) quite well. And, Nvidia's x86_64 drivers contain 32bit compat libraries, so standard x86 apps get the hardware acceleration as do x86_64 ones.