speaking of nvidia binary drivers and beryl

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:48:35 -0700
"Lonni J Friedman" <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/10/07, Katalichenka, Sergey <skatalichenka at constantcontact.com> wrote:
> > The current 100.14.11 nvidia drivers have two major issues.
> >
> > 1. Random freeze on the dual core systems (can be eliminated by booting
> > your kernel with idle=poll)
> 
> If booting with idle=poll eliminates the instability, then this is a
> kernel or BIOS bug, and not a driver bug.

Its a driver bug it appears. The kernel is fine without idle=poll unless
the nvidia driver is loaded. I imagine someone screwed up their power
management

Alan