On Wednesday 05 March 2003 01:29 pm, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > What version of the Nvidia driver are you using?  I have used 4191 since
> > it came out, and have never had a crash.  I do a rebuild from the source
> > RPM whenever I get a kernel update, and it just plain works.  If I can
> > play RTCW at 1024x768 without a problem, the driver is probably ok, since
> > that game works the video system rather hard.  I have heard other people
> > complain about instability with the 4191 driver, but have yet to see it
> > on my system, leading me to think the cause is somewhere else.
>
> It depends on the particular Geforce you have, actually. They're not all
> created equal. For some people 4191 is fine (you and me), for some it
> doesn't work at all, for some it breaks important stuff (it breaks 2D
> acceleration on several cards, which makes desktop really, really slow).

My desktop was really slow early in the current cooker cycle.  acpi=off seemed 
to cure it on my system.

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