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nVidia 6629 driver

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

Hi List!

I tried the 6629 nVidia driver and it's a mess. Gdm
starts and shows a more or less black screen. Went
back to 6111.

Lots of negative comments in the forum.

Anybody tried that here?

H.


		
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Re: nVidia 6629 driver

[Arne G. G. <ar...@li...>]

* Hugo Vanwoerkom
> Hi List!
>
> I tried the 6629 nVidia driver and it's a mess. Gdm
> starts and shows a more or less black screen. Went
> back to 6111.
>
> Lots of negative comments in the forum.
>
> Anybody tried that here?

Works for me with two FX5200 cards.  2.6.9 and Xorg 6.8.1.  I'm
experiencing occasional, sporadic X resets, but I upgraded from XFree
4.4 til Xorg 6.8.1 at about the same time as I upgraded the nVidia
drivers.


							Arne.

Re: nVidia 6629 driver

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- Arne Georg Gleditsch <ar...@li...> wrote:

> * Hugo Vanwoerkom
> > Hi List!
> >
> > I tried the 6629 nVidia driver and it's a mess.
> Gdm
> > starts and shows a more or less black screen. Went
> > back to 6111.
> >
> > Lots of negative comments in the forum.
> >
> > Anybody tried that here?
> 
> Works for me with two FX5200 cards.  2.6.9 and Xorg
> 6.8.1.  I'm
> experiencing occasional, sporadic X resets, but I
> upgraded from XFree
> 4.4 til Xorg 6.8.1 at about the same time as I
> upgraded the nVidia
> drivers.
> 
> 

I still use XFree 4.3.0 with a Debian option of
IsolateDevice (=prefbusid). I have an MX-440 PCI and a
TNT2 AGP. You don't use anything similar with Xorg
6.8.1?

H.




		
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Re: nVidia 6629 driver

[Arne G. G. <ar...@li...>]

* Hugo Vanwoerkom
> I still use XFree 4.3.0 with a Debian option of
> IsolateDevice (=prefbusid). I have an MX-440 PCI and a
> TNT2 AGP. You don't use anything similar with Xorg
> 6.8.1?

To be frank, I don't know.  My xorg.conf is derived from my
XF86Config-4, and still has my "SingleCard"-directives in.  However,
grepping the sources does not indicate that this should have any
effect.  I am enabling the /proc/bus/pci/hackvideo stuff, though.


							Arne.

Re: nVidia 6629 driver

[James v. Z. <ja...@dv...>]

I've had no troubles with the 6629 driver, in fact it seems to have
solved an issue under ruby where OpenGL would crash the machine
intermittently if used on the AGP console while the PCI console could
run OpenGL without fear of lockup.

Having said that I had no end of trouble with FC3 and nvidia cards with
open and closed drivers and that seems now to be nearly completely fixed
with the latest Xorg update, I can still crash it asking for an Xchooser
based remote session.

No such issues under RH9, FC1, FC2

J

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 04:20, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> I tried the 6629 nVidia driver and it's a mess. Gdm
> starts and shows a more or less black screen. Went
> back to 6111.
> 
> Lots of negative comments in the forum.
> 
> Anybody tried that here?
> 
> H.
> 
> 
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