Yes, it is strange. I have the Radeon M9000 (mobility) series, and while the drivers are still in development my machine is fairly stable... unless I do something stupid and upgrade to the latest and greatest XOrg series (running 6.8.2-r2 fine)...
Mind you, being a laptop it ain't on for more than 20 hours at a time, at most. I use the kernel open source drivers and find no problems with the desktop. 3D support in games is another thing, but then... I don't play games these days... On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:16, Matt Moor wrote: > That's certainly out of the norm, at least from my experience (with a > couple of boxes). Before I the motherboard died, I was running an athlon > machine with a Geforce2 MX 24/7 for 2 years. I was rebooting every 2-3 > months (usually for kernel or hardware upgrades), but iirc, never had X > or the box crash on me. > > Perhaps it's something funky about your work machine? Have you tried the > non-proprietary drivers? (If you can) > > - Matt > > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > >Harald Ashburner wrote: > >>Assertion 1: There is no decent open source drivers for 3D video cards > > > >Unfortunately, this definitely does seem to be true. > > > >My box at work has the binary Nvidia drivers and about once a fortnight > >or so, X dies, restarts and provides me with GDM login screen. For someone > >who keeps half a dozen windows open with what I'm working on, this is > >a royal PITA. > > > > > > > >Erik -- --- Marek W ------------------------------------- (2b | !2b)? ------------------------------------- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
