problem: system freezes.

[Rick Stevens]

On 09/09/2013 01:28 PM, Rick Stevens issued this missive:
> On 09/09/2013 01:15 PM, William Mattison issued this missive:
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> This is Fedora-19 on a 64 bit quad-core i7; with an Nvidia GEFORCE GTX
>> 660.  I most recently updated Fedora last Wednesday, Sept. 04.
>>
>> At least once each day, the system just locks up with no advanced
>> warning or symptoms.  It just stops responding to the trackball and
>> keystrokes.  The display simply stops changing.  The only things I can
>> do is a hard reset or cut off the power.  I am not aware of any pattern
>> to what I'm doing when such a freeze-up happens.  Once it happened after
>> logging in and simply launching a terminal window; another time I was
>> doing a "more" on a test file; another time I was reading e-mail through
>> Firefox; another time I was listening to a CD; another time I was
>> preparing to burn an audio CD.  No error messages show up on the screen.
>>
>> This problem has been occurring for a few weeks now, and was occurring
>> when I had Fedora-18 also.  I just now think I have the time to try to
>> handle it.  (I'm guessing this will take some doing!)
>>
>> I'm just a home user.  I have no sys. admin. training or experience.
>> How do I diagnose and fix this?
>>
>> Thank-you in advance for your help.
>
> Need a lot more info:
>
> Make and model of computer
> Video card type (nVidia, Intel, ATI, etc.)

Whoops, somehow I missed that in your initial post. My bad. Ok, nVidia.
My guess is still that the nouveau driver is having issues with your
card. The card I have trouble with is a GeForce 8200 and have to run the
nVidia binary blob drivers.
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