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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:53:15 +0530
From:      "Gautham Ganapathy" <xgautham@ti.com>
To:        "Laszlo Vagner" <freebsd@vagner.com>
Cc:        "Questions @ FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <NGBBJAAOCMHHCAAOGNFMKENDEOAA.xgautham@ti.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DDD6DAA.7000108@vagner.com>

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On Friday, November 22, 2002 5:05 AM, Laszlo Vagner wrote:
>
> lewiz wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote:
> >
> >>Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have
> >>ISOs, right?
> >
> >You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working.  I don't know
> >exactly what -RELEASE is missing but I'm quite sure.  There are still
> >problems with them (they hang my machine all the time) so be prepared
> >for trouble.
> >
> Yes I just installed the nvidia drivers for my TI 4200 card and
> ymessenger crashes the machine,
> it just makes some clicking sounds from the sound card and
> then reboots
> without syncing disks.
>
> I am running  Xfree 4.2.0_1, libraries 4.2.1_3, server 4.2.1_5 and
> client 4.2.1_2 this is greater than
> required by the nvidia instructions. The driver did get rid of the
> missing pixels in the xterm window
> but you cant use the machine reliable anymore.
>
> I am getting this error in netscape now also, "translation
> table unknown
> keysym name somekeyname"
> I tried deinstalling it and reinstalling 4.8 without change.
>
> next is to change the xserver driver and see if that changes anything.
>

Ok. I guess I'll try it out and see. I'll switch back to the old driver
if it keeps crashing. I don't suppose there is any word on when the
stable releases may be out?


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