I run a Geforce4200Go in my laptop, with latest 6106 nVidia drivers and
2.6.7. No visual glitches, the only thing that has stopped working is
the Tv out - but I haven't yet looked into it enough to be worried.
Brad
Jim Cheetham wrote:
I've just popped in a 2.6.7 kernel from Debian, and it's running with
an Nvidia GeForce4 card.
I've applied the latest Nvidia driver
(NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run).
I'm now getting intermittant horizontal flashes on the display, around
100px long and about 1px high, about 1 per second. These were worse
under the 5336 driver I was using with 2.6.5, which gave no problems.
Bleeding-edge syndrome, I think. Be warned!
-jim
ObLicense: Would this problem happen with an Open Source driver for
the video card? Probably. Would this be fixed any quicker? No, as long
as Nvidia are interested in supporting Linux, they are the best people
to fix their own code. Would Alax Cox fix the driver faster/better
than Nvidia? Probably, if he were motivated to do so. Motivation is a
problem that transcends licensing terms.
