HELP! System keeps locking up

[John Aldrich]

Quoting Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com>:
>
> I've hit a similar thing on a homebrewed Athlon machine as well. The
> nouveau driver didn't like the nVidia video card and it would hard lock
> periodically. The machine is powered down right now, so I can't tell
> you which nVidia it has, however switching to the nVidia binary driver
> solved the problem for me.
>
> My suggestion is that you gather all the X logs, messages logs and dmesg
> info you can and file a bug report. I started that process but my time
> got heavily soaked up at work and has prevented me from following
> through on the whole debug process with the nouveau gang. They were
> quite interested in the problem.
>
OK. I think that once I do that, I'll see if I can't dig up the  
instructions for installing the binary nVidia driver. :) I used that  
back when I had F18 and it worked well, so I'll give that a shot as  
well. I wondered if that wasn't the problem. 'Preciate the reply.