Christian Thaeter wrote: CT> I've updates the nvidia display drivers yesterday on my CT> wifes machine and found out that the recent driver has CT> some hefty regressions/instability/performance problems.
I think it's fairly well documented that the last few versions of the nVidia drivers have been seriously unstable. I haven't seen any official comment/explanation from nVidia as to how or why that happened and what they're doing to fix the problems. CT> We have a cheap GeForce 7300 GS card here, on a 64bit Debian CT> etch, Athlon64 Dualcore. CT> CT> I tried following versions: CT> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2.run [stable stable] CT> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.23-pkg2.run [beta version] CT> After some googleing I found out that that other people have similar CT> problems and some hat succes by downgrading to: CT> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.09-pkg2.run CT> CT> I tried that too, and ..tadaa.. it works! The folks who package the nVidia drivers for Lenny/Sid take the line that their job is to provide the latest "stable"-according-to-nVidia releases, rather than the actually-stable-according-to-experience version, so Sid currently has the newer, broken 100.14.19 version, and Lenny was stuck with only the "legacy" packages when I last checked. I downloaded the 100.14.09 packages from a mirror which still has them ( http://ftp.univ-pau.fr/linux/mirrors/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/ ), used module-assistant to build the kernel module for the current kernel and put the driver packages on "hold" with aptitude. Cheers Duncan _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
