----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Eastman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] REALLY weird stuff with nVidia 1.0 drivers
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:57:10PM -0700, John W wrote:
> > I have also heard that if you create a file called desktop in
> > /etc/sysconfig and put the line DESKTOP=GNOME that this will enable gdm
> > assuming have Gnome installed. Then you can run OpenGL apps from there
> > without issue from runlevel 5. So I've heard.
>
> Thanks... that did indeed fix the problem, I just switched from KDM to
> GDM and so far (after a thorough 2 minutes of testing) it seems to be
> working.
>
> I agree the nVidia drivers are an absolute nightmare.
>
> About once every two or three days my computer will completely lock up
> thanks to nvidia. I don't think this will ever go away, and it's quite
> depressing. I use ReiserFS, which seems to lessen the impact of all the
> hot-reboots. When it happens I can't even ssh or telnet into my
> computer to kill it... it's a total system lock... rather depressing
> when your working on an assignment or something!
Hmm. Now, I've had NO problems with nVidia's 1.0 drivers, with my TNT2 card.
BUT:
-I never use gdm, or kdm, or any graphical login manager; I boot to directly
to console mode (runlevel 3).
Typing "startx gnome" or "startx KDE" is just fine by me. The few times I
have used KDM, it seemed to work for me.
-I *used* to have strange lockups, similar to yours, but haven't really seen
any, since upgrading to .9-769. And none now, using 1.0x.
- the only problem I see is that, when running "gears", I get 500+ fps ...
but can't exit the program; it kills X.
Haven't had that happen to any other GL apps, except for those GL/Mesa demo
apps (gears, bounce, etc)
