On Sunday 29 September 2002 10:50 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: > > On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: > >> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Lorne wrote: > >>> I do have the nvidia drivers and they seem to load. It is just after > >>> quite some period of time that it dies back to the bash prompt. I'm > >>> beginning to think I have some sort of conflict or something. I think > >>> I'm going to disable firewire, usb and some other stuff and see what > >>> happens. ?? > >> > >> Are you using the 3123 nvidia drivers, or 2960? I tried the new ones, > >> it locked up my system, I had to hit the power button. I went back to > >> 2960 and everything's hunky dory. > > > > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz, so I guess 3123. Hmm.... well it sure is woth > > the try. I have had such trouble with this, that I feel like it is two > > years ago when Linux was less mature. I had no idea that Nvidia was so > > poorly supported! > > > > Where did you go to get the older drivers? > > Same place as the new ones, <nvidia.com>. Click on "DOWNLOAD DRIVERS", > then under "For Linux Users" click on "Linux Display Drivers", and you'll > see a list, with 3123 at the top and 2960 right under it. Or you can > click on this: <http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-2960>. > I always download the tar files into /home/spock/Nvidia, become root or > cd there as root from another console, copy the files to /usr, cd to /usr, > untar the files and do make install in the kernel and GLX directories, > go to /etc/X11, do: mv XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.old, cd to > /home/settings where I keep a copy of the XF86Config-4 file from past > installs, cp it to /etc/X11, and I'm good to go. > > HTH, > Dale
Not sure if you saw my last posts but the above advise was dead on. bad driver!!!! Rolled back to the older one and it came up immediately. THANKS!!!
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