Michel Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Ok, I really want to find out what crashes my nvidia. -I've not checked not using agp-support to see if it crashes then. Say it is AGP that crashes linux, won't it be more random? The crashes occur mostley on specific websites. If I visit them, linux crashes... I checked a website I know of and when it crashes it gives als something like this in users.log(everytime): Mar 17 13:31:09 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont (unreadable) Mar 17 13:31:09 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1 (unreadable) Mar 17 13:31:09 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf (unreadable) Mar 17 13:31:10 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled (unreadable) I've checked the directory and I have no "fonts"-dir in "/usr/X11R6/lib". It's at the same time as the crash? It is hard to let it crash on teh other site. I sometimes play bzflag and it never crashes for that. It seems my linux crashes only for "web"-things. Bzflaf is also over the web, but have not had 1 crash with that and I suppose bzflag uses AGP more than websites... Can this cause a crash? How can I install "fonts", so I can see if it MAYBE works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 I'm not yet completely sure, but I just visted a website where it crashed ...No, it doesn't crash anymore. Although I know the nvidia docs, say, may chipset, is not optimal, it should work I think. I get more and more the impression that it aren't (completely) the nvidia-drivers. It still can be, I'll kow more if I check agp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Have you tried re-building your own Nvidia drivers from source? that may fix your problem. Maybe you could post a couple of those links to sites where it crashes, we could try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 I just wanted to add something....At this moment only one website to my knowledge causes the crash. There was also one accident with mozilla-mail, but that's not really a problem(using alphaversion of mozilla...?). The nice thing is that the opensourcedrivers don't cause ANY crash to my experience and they also use AGP, not? I really want to use nvidia's ones because of their 3d-accelsupport...Maybe in 9.1final athings are maybe better...we'll see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 There is only one site that I know off. So the problem is very limited, but anyway... http://hop.to/dvs and choose "Foto's". There try to click a hyperlink on that page. You can try it, but others have tested it also and with theirs it worked ....but try it and see.... I've read atutorila about buildsing mandrake for your system hee like with gentoo. With 9.1 I'll try that and also build X11. Shall see then, but let me now please... Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Tried that site, all links work OK. no problems. You never said whether you tried rebuilding your own nvidia drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Rebuilding form source is in the mdk-rpms doc in our download section. Counterspy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 I've build them from tar. If you build them from (I suppose) SRPM...How does it go? I've laways builded from tar, or just installed with rpm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 The tarballs from nvidia are simply verified and extracted, not compiled. At least the ones I got from there for my LFS didn't compile, they just installed. It took like, 5 seconds so they couldn't have compiled. I couldn't find any source tarballs. Try the src.rpms. cd /path/to/NVIDIA rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-xxxxxx.src.rpm then look for a line that says Wrote /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ixxx/NVIDIA_kernel-xxxxxx-ixxx.rpm make sure you remove the current first, then rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ixxx/NVIDIA_kernel-xxxxxx-ixxx.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 I have had bad experiences with the Nvidia tarballs; use the source rpm's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 thanks, will try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted March 21, 2003 Report Share Posted March 21, 2003 How do you know it's not the browser that is crashing? I have visited certain websites that crash Galeon but not Konqueror. I have also visited websites that crash older versions of Internet Explorer. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2003 I'm not sure of it. I'll answer with something I'm sure off: It doesn't crash when I use the opensourcedrivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 That does seem to indicate that the drivers could be suspect. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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