I recently install CentOS 5.2 on an older pc Abit VP6 motherboard 2 x 1GHz PIII processors 1.5GB RAM Nvidia MX440 video
All works fine except when running X The display locks at ramdom times Sometimes it locks when I log in Sometimes it locks after several hours While it is locked I can ssh to this machine from another server I have to reboot to clear it Also when I reboot X starts with random resolutions
From research I see this has been a problem with Nvidia for several years
Can someone suggest a fix or a reliable video card I am not a gamer, I not not need anything fancy This is my xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection
Nvidia MX440 video Driver "nv"
Unsure if Nvidia have a driver for this video card on their site, but it might be worth checking out.
My Fedora box at home had the same issues with the "nv" driver and I switched to the official "nvidia" driver and haven't had any problems lately.
Originally I noticed the problem surfaced with more regularity when running WoW under Wine, but occassionally it would just freak out randomly. I'm also using Compiz with many effects turned on, so that could have pushed it over the edge sometimes too.. However, I don't play WoW any more, so that may have something to do with the increase in stability too, but Nvidia are releasing updates for it pretty regularly.
The downside is that every time a new kernel is released, you have to re-run the nvidia setup program, so don't delete it.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_x86_96.43.07.html
I have the exact same card in a workstation.
JohnS
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Spiro Harvey Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:08 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Video lock up
Nvidia MX440 video Driver "nv"
Unsure if Nvidia have a driver for this video card on their site, but it might be worth checking out.
My Fedora box at home had the same issues with the "nv" driver and I switched to the official "nvidia" driver and haven't had any problems lately.
Originally I noticed the problem surfaced with more regularity when running WoW under Wine, but occassionally it would just freak out randomly. I'm also using Compiz with many effects turned on, so that could have pushed it over the edge sometimes too.. However, I don't play WoW any more, so that may have something to do with the increase in stability too, but Nvidia are releasing updates for it pretty regularly.
The downside is that every time a new kernel is released, you have to re-run the nvidia setup program, so don't delete it.
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