X problems with nvidia drivers under linux

From: Jeff Vaughan (jav28_at_cornell.edu)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:55:44 -0500

I'm having a problem where X freezes when using nvidia's 5328 or 4363
drivers under linux Mandake. The symptoms are that my keyboard is not
responsive but my mouse cursor still moves. Even though I can't switch
to a virtual console, I am able to ssh in and find that X is using > 90%
of cpu time. If I restart X everything works fine until the next crash.
  I haven't found anything suspicious in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, and I
don't know of other logs I should check.

I've seen several posts claiming this is bug in the nvidia drivers (and
I don't experience it with the open source "nv" drivers). Does anyone
know of any workarounds? What about downgrading to older drivers or
changing kernel versions? I'm running 2.4.22-10mdk.

Thank you.

Jeff

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