On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:53:13 -0500, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay folks, I've had enough of my Nvidia card. > > > > > > > Could you elaborate? If you're not using the 3d capabilites, then > > the nv driver that comes with Xorg is fully open source. No need > > for any nvidia binary driver. So I'm curious as to the issue you're > > having. > > It's just too darn unstable. The only kernel module I could get working > with the card was a locally-compiled version built from the drivers from > nvidia.com. The latest version from nvidia won't work at all, I'm using an > older version (6111).
(Sorry about the partial response. A little user malfunction with my laptop touchpad.) I have used nvidia cards on several systems using both the open-source and nvidia-provided proprietary drivers, and haven't seen any of the symptoms that you describe - both with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. It is my understanding that the nvidia-kernel driver can be unstable if you enable AGP / DRI in the kernel - the problems that you are having sound like this may be the case. You should let the driver handle AGP / DRI. There is an nvidia howto in the docs on www.gentoo.org - perhaps you may want to take a look and compare against your current kernel config? Please forgive the suggestion to RTFM if you've already done so. As other posters have said, if you have no use for OpenGL / 3D accelleration, then you would probably be better served by using the built-in "nv" driver and forget about nvidia-kernel / nvidia-glx. It works perfectly well for everything but 3D accelleration. Also, you didn't say whether you use a text console or a console framebuffer - if you use the framebuffer I would check that you are using the vesafb or vesafb-tng fbcon drivers rather than the nvidia driver. If that doesn't work for you, I can also suggest the Matrox cards since you only do 2D work. Even an older card (which can be purchased for next to nothing) can be adequate depending on your requirements. -- [email protected] mailing list
