Comment 85 for bug 733374

For me, the nvidia drivers have been getting progressively more likely to crash with each release. 304.43 is the worst nvidia driver yet. It used to be only one 3d app that reliably crashed it, but now it crashes quickly even with 3d apps that ran OK with previous versions of the driver. And despite the fact that I reported this bug to the nvidia forums over a year ago and the fact that many other people also experience it, nvidia have not paid the slightest attention. (That's why closed source can suck.)

I'm sure it's not a hardware problem because I can run the same apps under windoze without the driver crashing (although I do have a much older version of the driver on windoze - I tried to install a newer version but the nvidia installer repeatedly crashed, go figure!).

And /proc/driver/nvidia/warnings/ is empty, so the driver thinks nothing is wrong. But the usual Xid errors, 'attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic context', and 'GPU has fallen off the bus' errors keep appearing in the syslog when it crashes.