On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:23:47AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > That is one big problem with nvidia - my laptop needs a more recent > kernel than that in order to have sound and wifi. So > I use 2.6.25 with a wifi patch now, and with luck that patch will > go into 2.6.26 so I can run a standard kernel again. Perhaps > nvidia catch up someday. Anyway, the 3D effects in xlockmore is not > too heavy to run in software.
nvidia is perfectly up to date. It isn't nvidia's fault if yu try to run a 2 year old driver with a 1 month old kernel. If you want a new kernel and a new nvidia driver, run unstable, or backport things you need yourself (or get someone to do it for you). > The worst part of nvidia is the occational lockup though. A surprise > freeze or two a > week is definitely too much - the machine runs stable without nvidia. :-/ Never seen that myself. The only thing that has ever locked up X on me is the stupid flash plugin from adobe. That is a piece of unstable crap. > I heard about this older version of the driver that didn't freeze up. > Took some > effort to find it and downgrade X. It was much better, but eventually it > too hung > the machine. I run the latest 169.12 driver and no lockups on any of my machines so far (all of which have nvidia cards in them). Sometimes I wonder if the machines crashing have bad power supplies or bad ram or something. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
