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09-09-2001, 10:57 PM	#1
jtshaw Senior Member Registered: Nov 2000 Location: Seattle, WA USA Distribution: Ubuntu @ Home, RHEL @ Work Posts: 3,892 Blog Entries: 1 Rep:	X locking up on shutdown I recently installed linux (Slackware 8.0) on a Athlon 1.4Ghz. system with a Geforce 2 MX200 w/ 64MB of RAM and Xfree 4.1. The strange thing is when I use the new nvidia linux drivers it locks up when I kill the x-server, so I pretty much can't reboot or shutdown the system once x has been started without it crashing. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

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