On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Andreas Weber <ae...@worldwideweber.ch> wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Slow for what purposes? 3D graphics? Real-time animated games? >> I don't do either of those things. I mainly use X for web browsing. >> I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire. >> Is the proprietary Nvidia driver really going to make a dramatic improvement >> for things like that? > > Actually it's impressive to see users of other OSs turn their eyes round > when they see you changing the active window with Cover switch or doing > a desktop change when the cube turns. ;-) > > If you like 3D stuff, you'll get it with the Nvidia driver. But I see > exactly what you're saying. You'll see no difference when you code in vi. > > Could it be that the problems of the Nvidia driver not working have > their reason in a non working xorg.conf file? What is it's content? As > the driver installer suggest his own version, and from my experience > this works extremely well (screen, mouse with all buttons &c.), this > could also be the source of the problem AFAICS.
I always let the nvidia installer replace my xorg.conf, so that's not the problem in my case. I had suspected the headers against which I was compiling, but I tried both the headers package and the configured source and had the same problem, namely the Nvidia splash screen appearing for a few seconds (meaning that the driver is working?) and then the server crashing. Maybe there's something hanging around on my system that's interfering, but I don't know what. Anyway, it's working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm happy for now! Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org