On Monday 11 August 2003 11:36 am, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:48:17 +0200, Gregor St��er > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Gregor> I had the same problems, I tried XFree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, all > Gregor> withour success so I gave up using the NVidia driver. I know > Gregor> the 3D performance is twice as much as the one from XFree > Gregor> (at least on my x86 machines), but I don't think the time > Gregor> for getting the driver to work is it worth. Sorry I have no > Gregor> better advice > > Debian/stable _should_ be fine. In fact, my home machine is a zx2000 > with Debian/stable and I'm using the Nvidia driver (v4050). It's > working well. > > BTW: The zx2000 support web site has Nvidia driver v4431 available. I > haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It's available here (sorry for > the long URL): > > http://h20004.www2.hp.com/soar_rnotes/bsdmatrix/matrix82074en_US.html#Drive >r%20-%20Graphics%20-%20Nvidia > > --david Based on the preceeding email, I decided to download XFree86 4.3.0 and go with that. Same problem. Then after considerable thinking I decided to try compiling it with gcc-2.96 (Debian set the default compiler on my system to gcc-3.3) This made a large difference but whether for the better is open to question. The first time I tried startx, it said no screen this is with the XF86Config-4 installed by Nvidia. So I changed to the config file from my other machine, also nvidia ( and is sharing the monitor via KVM switch) second try, it came up, but with the twm window manager. Wanting KDE, I did ctrl-alt-backspace to shutdown X The machine hung. Finally had to power down. On re-power, it complained about the disk and prompted to have fsck run manually. But it wasn't listening to the keyboard -- dead in the water Finally used recovery shell to fsck and then was able to boot before trying again, I did a telnet to the machine first in hopes I could regain control if things went bad. No such luck. I did startx kde3 but intead of starting KDE, it passed kde to xterm as a param and it died during start up. The telnet session didn't help as it went dead with the rest. I guess the kernel is crashed so bad it can't even say "PANIC" Had to use recovery shell again.
I'm open to suggestions. Richard
