Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:07:18 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> Cc: darren <darren@quantumtheorem.com> Subject: Re: nvidia/4.8-stable Message-ID: <20030609070718.GA94542@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200306082154.41860.mupi@mknet.org> References: <20030608012118.M496@quantumtheorem.com> <20030609021420.M59766@quantumtheorem.com> <200306082154.41860.mupi@mknet.org>
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On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:54:33PM -0600, Mike Porter wrote:
> On Sunday 08 June 2003 08:20 pm, darren wrote:
> > No, the nvidia driver claims it works on 4.7 and up, and then later say=
s it
> > doesn't work on 4.8. Someone was really lazy with the documentation and
> > didn't bother proof reading it. I already had it installed and had it
> > crash my computer when I upgraded to 4.8, and yet in ports it still bui=
lds,
> > even though I crash from it.
> >
> > -Darren
>=20
> I guess YMMV, then, because it works fine for me, and I have 4.8. Like I=
=20
> said, I did have to jump through a few hoops, but once jumped, it has bee=
n=20
> working (I almost said flawlessly, but it doesn't appear to do OpenGL=20
> correctly; everything else in my setup works). It may be something with =
the=20
> particular card, although supposedly nvidia has a common driver interface=
=20
> that means that all of their cards, from TNT to Titanium, should work.
When I first installed the nvidia drivers, everything was peachy.
However a few XFree86 updates[*] later, and X started to get a little
flakey on startup -- usually the xdm login screen wouldn't render
correctly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would restore things to normal. Then
came an X update too far, and X would crash on boot leaving the
console completely unresponsive.
The cure was to throw away my old XF86Config and start again from
scratch. Seems that either re-ordering the FontPath elements or
modifying the Module Load stuff by dropping 'bitmap' and adding
'xtrap' has made all the difference. Now everything is peachy once
again.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] Since the x11/nvidia-driver port fights with the
x11/XFree86-4-libraries port over the ownership of
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1, reinstalling x11/nvidia-driver after every
update to the X11 libraries would seem to be a good idea.
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