Hello all,

recently I installed mandrake 10.1 and spent some time to install latest nvidia drivers for my mx440 card gl support. Game starts faster and looks much better than winxp setup. only problem is after about 2-3 minutes of playing in multiplayer (pb is trying to update itself sometimes) everything freezes, whole system crashes (no error message whatsoever), i cant even move mouse or use keybord, I have to shut the system down and restart.

any idea about possible reasons...

Thanks in advance

GOOD NEWS, I think I found the problem, (no freezing, up %100) :-)

The problem was something related to wireless usb network adapter. I had 2 usb ports in my pc, I added another pci 2.0 4 port usb card later on. The zydas wireless nic was connected to 2.0 pci addon card, just changed it to one of the onboard usb ports. I had a latency problem with my mouse in the game also, now all gone. I am up 100% with my quake 3 running on Mandrake 10.1 and it is faster than my windows quake3...

A few tips about installing nvidia drivers; I followed procedure at http://jennings.homelinux.net/nvidia.html each time i tried to compile drivers, I got kind of kernel mismatch error. I was sure my kernel-source was correct so checked readme file comes with drivers. found that to be able to compile drivers you should turn off PnP OS option in Bios and enable IRQ for VGA support. Then drivers compiled normally and I was able use gl support for games...

Another thing if you have problems with Punkbuster make sure you use pbweb.x86 file to update it. Dont spend time copying punkbuster files manually because IT doesnt work even if you copy all the files.

Good Luck All....