Paul Hoepfner-Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > as I said before, both Pixel & me managed to get the drivers installed
> on
> > the 7.1-beta, on several tnt/tn2/geforce videocards..
>
> > and we followed the nvidia faq, it just went smooth, recompiling real
> easy
> > the kernel module, and installed the non-opensourced glx rpm.
>
> > --
> > Guillaume Cottenceau
>
> I still haven't had a chance to try out some of the suggestions for
> getting my Xfree86 4.0 to work with the nVidia drivers (like adding
> that agp option to my xf86config file)--but you mention recompiling
> the nVidia kernel module... I did this when I tried getting these
> drivers to work, but I used the src.rpm to compile it. Might this be a
> reason X segfaulted when it tried to load?
Sould not.
> Should I try compiling
> from the tar.gz instead?
you can try.
> What about the glx module? You say you
> installed it from the rpm?
>
> I'm just not sure what is the right way to do it, because there are so
> many options in the nVidia FAQ.
For all people having problem with Nvidia, this is principally because
of nvidia driver conceptual problem / bugs. There is not much chance the
XF4.0 server to be at fault, and we can't support Nvidia due to their
licensing issues.
So, the best you can do is :
go to irc.openprojects.net, channel #nvidia, where the nvidia developers
are, and blame them for a bugged & non open sources product.
If it was open source, there will probably be much less bug,
we could support the driver, help debug it, and help people
which have problem with it.
--
-- Yoann, http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/
It is well known that M$ products don't call free() after a malloc().
The Unix community wish them good luck for their future developments.
