[CentOS] Desktop freeze... now what?

Fri Jan 18 01:02:49 UTC 2008
Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>

Hi,

I installed CentOS 5 on a client's machine yesterday afternoon. He 
phoned me in the evening to tell me that his desktop "froze several 
times upon him", and he had to hard-reboot it.

The last time this happened to me was with some exotic wireless card 
whose driver had problems with SMP. But here, I have no wireless card. 
So the only suspect is the NVidia Geforce 4000 card.

The only non-standard thing I did in my install was to install the 
proprietary NVidia driver from nvidia.com. I knew afterwards this was 
not a good thing to do, since the RPMForge repos do have an 
nvidia-legacy drivers. I remembered this too late.

Anyway. I'm due to return to the client in a few hours time next 
morning. I wonder if reverting from "nvidia" to "nv" in xorg.conf could 
solve my problem.

As for updates, the system is up to date. But I admit I'm a bit clueless.

Any suggestions?

Niki