I too am running 6106 with no problems but I do recall seeing some comments on the Gentoo forums about some problems. I think it may have been fixed with later kernels (Gentoo-dev-sources are now up to 2.6.7-r10)
Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Brad Beveridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 15 July 2004 8:41 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.6.7 and nvidia 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. >
