Les wrote: > On 5/27/2010 1:00 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: >>> >>>> I had somewhat similar problems. This is a shot in the dark, but do >>>> you happen to have a Nvidia controller in your system? If >>>> so, you may have been affected by this bug: >>>> >>>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4335 >>>> >>>> There is a workaround which solved the problem for me. >>> >>> Thanks for the hint! >>> I tried the workaround but unfortunately I still have the problem... >> >> I cured my nvidia driver problems (which re-arose every kernel update or >> re-compile) by putting in an ATI video card. Problems since then = 0 >> >> nvidia is not fond of the Linux world (compared to ATI). > > A more realistic way to say that is that linux is intentionally > incompatible with a lot of other software. Ah, no, it's not. Brian had it right: nvidia does keep a lot proprietary, and does *not* pay a lot of attention to writing their own drivers for Linux. mark