> I have problems running OO (r. 1.0.3-1) with Nvidia drivers <snip> > Any hints or ideas? Yes, use the XFree provided nvidia driver or report the bug to nvidia & at their forums ;-) In all seriousness.. running binary only drivers is always a gamble, no one in the community can debug them so your at nvidia's mercy for support. Even sending a kernel crash dump to the LKML with a 'tainted' kernel (ie, non gpl kernel modules) will cause them to be redirected to /dev/null in a hearbeat. nvidia's forums can be a good resource from time to time though.. searching and/or posting your problems there might help you resolve your problem. Ps, you mentioned killing X from another machine; Doesn't killing X with ctrl-alt-backspace work?