HELP! System keeps locking up

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/21/14 21:16, John Aldrich wrote:
> 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.

Just use the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion.  Your life will be easier....

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