From: Michael Butash <
michael@butash.net>
> Meh, I've had too many ati cards die and freak out my systems,
> which is what drove me to NV. I haven't had one NV die, but
> obviously comes with other issues...
The problem may not be with the nVidia card, but with the Ubuntu
kernel itself. Debian and Debian-derived distros have a serious
Free bias, and distro kernels have more weird bugs than the vanilla
kernels do. The first thing I'd try is to install a vanilla kernel
on the box, then recompile the evil binary-only nVidia modules
against that kernel. I've been doing this since the nVidia modules
were beta and XFree 3.3.6 was the latest thing, and I've never had
a problem with X eating all the memory.
I don't do a whole lot of OpenGL use or TV watching, though, so YMMV.
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