From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 27 16:40:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AFA37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:40:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (smtp-3a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DCB43F75 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james.pole@paradise.net.nz) Received: from 203-79-103-133.tnt14.paradise.net.nz (203-79-103-133.tnt14.paradise.net.nz [203.79.103.133]) by smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D003BAE0D8; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:40:38 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel From: James Pole To: Paul Mather Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030127230130.GA3246@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <20030127204647.GA373@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <00b501c2c647$eeb5ba60$0e0c32d4@niked> <20030127230130.GA3246@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1043714433.96161.14.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 28 Jan 2003 13:40:33 +1300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:01, Paul Mather wrote: > Removing the options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK and CPU_ENABLE_SSE from > my kernel appears to have fixed the problem I was having. :-\ Do you *have* to have OpenGL acceleration? If you don't, just simply use the open-source 'nv' driver for XFree86. It is much, much more stable than anything NVIDIA has to offer. The only downside is that you have to use software OpenGL... - James -- James Pole ICQ: 21721828 AIM: kiwijames1986 MSN: james.pole@paradise.net.nz SMS: +64-210-455-139 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message