Re:new nvidia drivers and xorg 7.0

[Michael P. <mic...@op...>]

The new nvidia driver has already been integrated into Ubuntu 6.06 beta and
does indeed seem to fix the dreaded nvidia crashing problem.  We tested on
both agp and pci-e setups, and it runs for a long time with 4 users logging
in/out every 12 seconds.  Multi-user operation is obviously not a high
priority for nvidia, but at least they spent the time to fix this key bug.
Hopefully their driver is written so that the fix should be pretty much
hardware independent.

On another note, we have succesfully brought up 3 users with xorg 7.0 with
Ubuntu 6.06 beta.  The evdev keyboard syntax has changed, now you need to
use the evdev driver instead of kbd and "dev phys" doesn't seem to work, bu=
t
now specifying "Device" works (it did not always work before)
Here is an example of the switched syntax:
        Identifier      "keyboard0"
        Driver          "evdev"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
        #Driver         "kbd"
        #Option "Protocol" "evdev"
        #Option "Dev Phys" "isa0060/serio0/input0"

It would be nice to get "dev phys" working again, but specifying by event#
is just as useful for our plug-in-anywhere scripts.

Michael Pardee
Open Sense Solutions LLC
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