----- "Niki Kovacs" <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. Did/Can you get the customer to try 'Ctrl-Alt-F1' or similar to see whether it may be that the Xserver has hung but not the OS ? Also, if they know the IP can you get them to attempt a ping from another machine ? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.