Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:25:47 -0400 From: mark <mark@giovannetti.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing Message-ID: <469D964B.70906@giovannetti.ca> In-Reply-To: <002d01c7b178$a8e65e10$a3fd31d2@daisy> References: <200706152133.27118.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> <20070618012935.S5906@fledge.watson.org> <002d01c7b178$a8e65e10$a3fd31d2@daisy>
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Gemma Fletcher wrote: >> I apologize in advance if this advice is too rudimentary. > > Rudimentry is good :) I am a BSD noob :D > >> Sounds more like hardware. You did not say how you tested your memory. If > you >> did not use Memtest86, get and run that. Also run fsck manually. > > I used Memtest and I have had already run fsck since my poor hard drive was > compaining bitterly of so many cold restarts. There were some errors that > were cleaned up - and it seems a bit more stable <as in it can go a few > hours before freezing> > [snip] I've had many freezes with FreeBSD 6.2 and nvidia cards on at least 3 separate systems. The thing that has fixed it on every system has been to use portdowngrade to reset the nvidia driver to: nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 (possibly with an extra _4 in the portdowngrade list) Hope this helps.
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