Total Crash ? KDE ? (nVidia)

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:38 -0400, Franck Y wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I have a little problem that make me work on Windows...
> 
> I upgraded my machine with a new graphic card GeForce 6800 Pro.
> I bought this one because i wanted a nvidia card for its compatibility with
> linux, and i've heard that the drivers works pretty well.
> 
> I've updated KDE though yum, there were compatibility problem, so i had
> to update arts, after kdemultimedia and after kde base. It install as
> well the new kernel.
> 
> I've added lvnia to my depo repository and install the nvida drivers.
> 
> I was pretty happy, because i saw the nvidia screen and i was able to
> have a beautiful resolution. At this moment the computer froze (around
> 2 minutes) , i thought it was only kde who was f**** everything. But i
> could not kill X. I went to my laptop and try to connect to my
> computer to see what happen (dmesg), but the computer did not reply. I
> tried to ping and anything came back...
> 
> Any ideas, i m running a AMD Althlon 64 X2 Dual core 4600+ with 3 Go of ram.
> 
> Thanks for the help
> -- 
> Franck
> 

You seem to be hitting a problem with the nVidia driver.
Please follow this [2] procedure and post a bug report in nvnews. [1].

- Gilboa
[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
[2] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498