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Vazz

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Registered: 2010-12-31

Posts: 5

Problem with nvidia driver, causing system to be unusable

Hello, I've got a problem I assume with nvidia driver. My graphics card is gtx 460, here's my usual glxgears output:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16474487/noerror.png
After random amount of time (usually from 30 mins to ~2hours) something 'breaks' and here's what happens:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16474487/error.png
I've tried different desktop environments, under xfce4 it also breaks, i've been testing also nvidia-beta and nvidia-all drivers, but it won't help. After 'breaking' i must restart nvidia module, then all again is working fine.

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Loafers

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Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 92

Re: Problem with nvidia driver, causing system to be unusable

Hello, I've got a problem I assume with nvidia driver. My graphics card is gtx 460, here's my usual glxgears output:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16474487/noerror.png
After random amount of time (usually from 30 mins to ~2hours) something 'breaks' and here's what happens:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16474487/error.png
I've tried different desktop environments, under xfce4 it also breaks, i've been testing also nvidia-beta and nvidia-all drivers, but it won't help. After 'breaking' i must restart nvidia module, then all again is working fine.

Hey Vazz, there is a problem with the nvidia linux drivers/gtx460 hardware, but sadly it only affects a small population.

There is a thread on the nvidia support forums with many others having more or less the same problems.

Still no response from nvidia yet...  In the meantime use nouveau.

Last edited by Loafers (2011-01-20 05:13:58)