Random Nvidia freezes in a AMD 64 bit!

[aliov]

Hey guys, after convincing my brother to start using Linux and try to get his video editing work done in Linux , i'm having this problem and not able to solve it .

Random freezes with nvidia card on Ubuntu 7.10 as well as OpenSuSE 10.3 , if i drop down to ubuntu 7.04 the problem disappears but no sound .

if i use vesa there is no problem , so it's coming from the driver .

Other guys reported this problem to the Ubuntu bug list and OpenSuSE , but still no solution or i didn't find one .

So any Help please .

[Lazydog]

Have you tried to use nVidia's driver from their website?

[aliov]

I'm afraid yes, the latest nvidia driver seems to be buggy or .......

Probably dropping down to an old version of nvidia will help , i'm going to give it a try and post here .

[Lazydog]

That was going to be my next suggestion. I remember having to step back once because of an issue I was having. But today I'm running the latest.

[aliov]

Dropping down to the previous version of Nvidia 96.43.01 seems to work fine . enabling compiz effect with makes my brother forgetting about the freeze .

but this has to be fixed.

cinelerra is a nice video program .