FYI,Well, overall they run fine on my machine, too, and glxgears is really fast. There
I've read quite a few negative comments about the latest nvidia drivers, but I must say I have had the opposite experience.
On my labrat box, I'm running a newly installed latest gentoop 2004 2.6.2 system with ~x86 everything and glibc with nptl activated, so the 5336 level nvidia drivers were selected. I noted:
1. On my nforce2 video card, I notice a 300fps speed improvement (glxgears) over prior 4496 level drivers.
2. I have a VIA chipset. The new nvidia driver is smart enough to disable AGP support even if requested instead of hanging the system as did the 4496 level driver.
3. I have no problem switching to-from an alternate console while X is active. No black screens as others have reported.
Enjoy,
were two problems though...
I'm using 2.6.1 since a couple of days as default kernel after I managed to solve the
remaining upgrade-related issues (2.4.x to 2.6.x was definitely the most work-intensive
transition I have experienced), and I installed the nvidia 5336 drivers.
The first problem was that KDE would refuse to start, complaining about a missing symbol
_nv000022 in /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (which pointed to the new version of that NVIDIA library).
GNOME would work fine. I could resolve this by removing the /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 link
(which pointed to a MESA library). Unfortunately, that link later popped up again, and I still don't
quite know what's creating it.
The second problem I had yesterday - when starting America's Army (from KDE), I switched to
console. After switching back to the virtual console on which X runs, the screen would be filled
with garbage text, and I couldn't perform any inputs! I heard the music from AA playing, so the system
wasn't totally hanging, but I could do nothing to get out of this "trap", and had to reset the machine. Usually,
switching between console and X does work, when AA is running, though, so it was likely some spurious
problem. It's just that I didn't have a hanging system (or sudden reboot or other major failure for all that matters) in
the 4 months I have this PC, using kernels 2.4.21 and 2.4.24.
So I would recommend saving all your work (and closing the mail application, especially if it is configured
to fetch e-mails every x minutes) before starting a 3D game. The nvidia driver 5336 or kernel 2.6 *may* freeze the PC.
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