Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496) :-)

2003-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:52:11PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > if they went away .. we'd have to bitch about ati/matrox :-0 > > We already had that argument. Matrox lost. And we had the ATI/3dfx > d

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:52:11PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > if they went away .. we'd have to bitch about ati/matrox :-0 We already had that argument. Matrox lost. And we had the ATI/3dfx debate. 3dfx lost. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL P

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:04:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've had the same thing; the drivers that I nabbed from nVidia have been > > > rock-solid and quite functional, whereas the Debian packages...besides, > > > why is it a 'cra

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 19:49 Subject: Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496) > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:04:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've had the same thing; the drivers that I nabbed from nVidia have been > rock-solid and quite functional, whereas the Debian packages...besides, > why is it a 'crap driver'? The de

FW: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-15 Thread Sreelal Chandrasenan
> > -- > From: Sreelal Chandrasenan > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:25:22 AM > To: Debian User (E-mail) > Subject: FW: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496) > Auto forwarded by a Rule > > > -Original Message- From:

FW: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-15 Thread Sreelal Chandrasenan
-Original Message- From: Hugo Vanwoerkom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:03:03PM -0600, Stewart Jenkins wrote: > >>

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:03:03PM -0600, Stewart Jenkins wrote: On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: That is the crap driver I'm talking about. BTW, you can get it easier with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. Interesting. I h

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-15 Thread donw
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:03:03PM -0600, Stewart Jenkins wrote: > On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > That is the crap driver I'm talking about. BTW, you can get it easier > > with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. > > > > Interesting. I had l

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-14 Thread Stewart Jenkins
On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > > That is the crap driver I'm talking about. BTW, you can get it easier > with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. Interesting. I had lots of problems with the two debian packages, but have had rock solid performanc

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:34:30AM +0100, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > > with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. > Can someone tell me where I can find nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496 package for > installing nvidia-glx? - From building

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-13 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:46:11PM +, John Peter wrote: > > I use the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run installer from NVidea and > > just had to execute their instructions, by the letter an

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:46:11PM +, John Peter wrote: > I use the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run installer from NVidea and > just had to execute their instructions, by the letter and everything > runs OK. That is the crap driver I'm talking

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-12 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've >> searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with the ATI >> drivers

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-12 Thread John Peter
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-11 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday December 11 at 06:35pm Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > > I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've > > searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with > > the ATI dr

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > > I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've > > searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with the ATI > > drivers too, so I've decided to stick

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've > searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with the ATI > drivers too, so I've decided to stick w

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-11 Thread David Selby
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: David Selby wrote: Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia' manua

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-11 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:30:55AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> > Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and >> >> for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-11 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for >> that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after >> upgrading, X w

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday December 11 at 02:30am Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I always put Nvidia in /etc/modules. > for me it always worked without adding it to '/etc/modules'. > > any idea about the error? No, I used to get an error about 'non-gpl code, tainted kernel' or some such with 436

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:30:55AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for > >> that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after > >> upgrading, X wou

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that > occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X > wouldn't start (error loading 'nv

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
David Selby wrote: > Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for >>that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, >>X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia' >>manually, and then i

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> Hi >> >> I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for >> that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after >> upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe >> 'nvidia' manually, and

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread David Selby
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia' manually, and then it loads, but with an error: devfs_re

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday December 10 at 03:24pm Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and > for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after > upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe > 'nvid

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia' manually, and then it loads, but with an error: devfs_reg

yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia' manually, and then it loads, but with an error: devfs_register(nvidiactl): cou