On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:10:21 -0700 Miark wrote: Hi Miark,
>> Can anyone tell me what the advantage would be of using the new Nvidia >> drivers over the ones that are installed with mandrake (running 8.0 >> here)? > >nVidia's drivers support 3D. The stock Mandrake driver (nv) does not. That alone would not be enough reason to upgrade. As far as I know, 3D is mainly for games, right? I never play games on the computer. >> And is there an easy way to go back to the original if the new ones don't >> work for me? > >Yes. rpm -e the new one, and change your XFree86 config file back to its >original condition (changing, what, two or three lines). Ah, that is simple enough :) >> I sometimes experience strange effects in X where the display looks like >> repetitions of 15 or so horizontal lines, making reading it impossible, >> and all I can do is a reboot. Perhaps the new drivers would fix this >> problem. > >Reboot? Are you not able to simply restart the X server? If I just restart X the problem persists. I never had this problem before, just after getting things running on this new PC with the Nvidia card this strange stuff started happening. And I still suspect that playing movies is the problem. When I don't play movies I can easily get an uptime of 30+ days. And when I get the UPS probably more, since the power here sometimes disappears for a minute. Thanks for the help! Paul -- Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.7.0
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