[vtkusers] Re: Geforce 2 cards / SMP / VTK

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Sometimes i get a crash (hard reboot required), but really not often.
Mostly it crashes after several hours of Quake III. My X also crashes
sometimes, but that's only X, so no hard reboot required, just
restarting X.

Les Schaffer wrote:
> 
> You said on the vtkusers list a while ago:
> 
> >>>
> I've benchmarked a Geforce2 on the following system:
> - Dual Pentium III 733
> - ASUS V7700 Geforce2 GTS Deluxe 64MB
> - NVIDIA driver v0.9-5
> - XFree86 v4.0
> - VTK 3.1.2 (rev: 1.476, 2000/04/03 14:51:38)
> - OpenGL
> <<<
> 
> i've just put together a similar system, dual with GeForce2 GTS and X
> 4.0.1 and same NVIDIA drivers.
> 
> but when i use OpenGL stuff, more often than not i am crashing the
> system (hard reboot required).
> 
> i understand that this is a known issue with nvidia drivers, and they
> will address it in the future release.
> 
> but i was wondering if you are NOT having such SMP problems???
> 
> thanks
> 
> les schaffer
> 
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