Re: X crashes, black screen (video signal still there), and have to shutdown and power up.

Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ANTant@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
OK, I tried my friend's BFG NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200. Reproduced again. :(
So, it is not my video card or the heat so far.

Then you should try to replace something else. Did you try to replace the
driver? Maybe the opensource nv driver or the opensource vesa driver is

I only tried different versions of drivers. I still need the 3D acceleration for Google Earth,
GL screen savers, games, etc.


more reliable than the nVidia binary driver? If it helps to replace the
driver it might also help to upgrade or downgrade the binary nvidia driver.

So far, the NVIDIA person in NVIDA forum didn't see anything odd in my logs. I wonder if it is a
X bug or something. Here's what's weird. I mentioned that GNOME does not have problems (shows
garbled texts), but KDE does. I wonder if KDE in X is doing something to make it blow up.
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