----- "Niki Kovacs" <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed CentOS 5 on a client's machine yesterday afternoon. He
> phoned me in the evening to tell me that his desktop "froze several
> times upon him", and he had to hard-reboot it.
>
> The last time this happened to me was with some exotic wireless card
> whose driver had problems with SMP. But here, I have no wireless card.
>
> So the only suspect is the NVidia Geforce 4000 card.
>
> The only non-standard thing I did in my install was to install the
> proprietary NVidia driver from nvidia.com. I knew afterwards this was
>
> not a good thing to do, since the RPMForge repos do have an
> nvidia-legacy drivers. I remembered this too late.
>
> Anyway. I'm due to return to the client in a few hours time next
> morning. I wonder if reverting from "nvidia" to "nv" in xorg.conf
> could
> solve my problem.
>
> As for updates, the system is up to date. But I admit I'm a bit
> clueless.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Niki
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Did/Can you get the customer to try 'Ctrl-Alt-F1' or similar to see whether it may be that the Xserver has hung but not the OS ?
Also, if they know the IP can you get them to attempt a ping from another machine ?
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