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The nvidia problem has been fixed!!! Used to be that with the latest kernel with amd cpu's that the xsession would not properly close. In other words, if a user was running say tuxracer and had the nvidia kernel driver installed on a system with an amd cpu and then they logged out and another user logged in and tried to run anything like tuxracer or mplayer, etc, there session would crash and then restart the xserver, then they could log in and it would be ok. This happened on a Mandrake 9 box (Bob Meyer) and a RedHat 9 box (me) both with amd cpu's. I tried it once with an Intel cpu and the problem did not happen, that system did not have an 8x agp port(intel boards had not come out with them yet and I suspected this might be an issue as well) but I noticed that on the intel system, on log out, it would restart the xserver (you would see the nvidia splash screen) then it would load the xdm(kdm or gdm) and the crashing did not occur. SO,,,, on a recent install of RedHat 9 on a system with the same AMD cpu and 8x AGP port with the same nvidia card, this did not crash anymore and just like the intel system, it restarted the xserver on logout. I am not sure but I think that the nvidia driver is the same version as I had before so it may have come with an updated package, as I always update the system via the RedHat Network. Anyone else notice this improvement?<BR>
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