I find myself in something of a quandry. I have an eagle chipset USB DSL modem. It normally works fine. But when I use the nVidia X drivers, my internet experiences random silent death. Sometimes immediate, sometimes it takes as long as an hour. Needless to say, this is rather inconvenient from an OpenGL perspective.

Is this an nVidia motherboard or video card we''re talking about?

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A graphics card. An AGP GeForce2 MX, to be precise.

(I had imagined that to be obvious from context, what with the problem occuring with the X drivers)

Without knowing a whole lot about what would cause such an issue (having not done anything that''d qualify as research on it), I''ll give the following guess: it''s the fault of some software interfacing with the motherboard or the video card. The only thing that comes to mind with the motherboard would be the NVidia''s drivers using AGP, so try disabling or lowering the AGP level to see if that fixes anything (or switch AGP implementations, there''s the kernel''s and there''s NVidia''s); NVidia has documentation in their driver README explaining how to do all of that (none of it is difficult). That''s only a potential temporary solution, but it''s worth a try. If it''s not that, I''d think it''s likely NVidia''s drivers are doing something weird and send them an email about a possible problem with their drivers.

Try the nVidia and Linux graphics forum, run by nVidia it might be able to get you out of your quandry:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14



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