I recently install CentOS 5.2 on an older pc Abit VP6 motherboard 2 x 1GHz PIII processors 1.5GB RAM Nvidia MX440 video All works fine except when running X The display locks at ramdom times Sometimes it locks when I log in Sometimes it locks after several hours While it is locked I can ssh to this machine from another server I have to reboot to clear it Also when I reboot X starts with random resolutions>From research I see this has been a problem with Nvidia for several yearsCan someone suggest a fix or a reliable video card I am not a gamer, I not not need anything fancy This is my xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection
> Nvidia MX440 video > Driver "nv"Unsure if Nvidia have a driver for this video card on their site, but it might be worth checking out. My Fedora box at home had the same issues with the "nv" driver and I switched to the official "nvidia" driver and haven't had any problems lately. Originally I noticed the problem surfaced with more regularity when running WoW under Wine, but occassionally it would just freak out randomly. I'm also using Compiz with many effects turned on, so that could have pushed it over the edge sometimes too.. However, I don't play WoW any more, so that may have something to do with the increase in stability too, but Nvidia are releasing updates for it pretty regularly. The downside is that every time a new kernel is released, you have to re-run the nvidia setup program, so don't delete it. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090107/be8b316e/attachment-0004.sig>
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_x86_96.43.07.html I have the exact same card in a workstation. JohnS> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Spiro Harvey > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:08 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Video lock up > > > Nvidia MX440 video > > Driver "nv" > > Unsure if Nvidia have a driver for this video card on their site, but > it might be worth checking out. > > My Fedora box at home had the same issues with the "nv" driver and I > switched to the official "nvidia" driver and haven't had any problems > lately. > > Originally I noticed the problem surfaced with more regularity when > running WoW under Wine, but occassionally it would just freak out > randomly. I'm also using Compiz with many effects turned on, so that > could have pushed it over the edge sometimes too.. However, I > don't play > WoW any more, so that may have something to do with the increase in > stability too, but Nvidia are releasing updates for it pretty > regularly. > > The downside is that every time a new kernel is released, you have to > re-run the nvidia setup program, so don't delete it. > > > -- > Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd > 021-295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz >