On Don, 2002-03-07 at 15:18, Joe Krahn wrote: > Guillaume Membr� wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have bought a geforce2 TI, and I installed the nvidia driver 2314, it > > worked well with opengl games but when I look tv with my bt878 card, my > > computer crashed :( (I send a bug report to nvidia) > > Before I had a 3dfx3 2000 agp and it worked fine. no problem until I > > changed the graphic card. > > > > So I decided to use the nv drivers included in the Xfree 4.1.0, it > > worked perfectly with my tv. no crash. > > And when I want to play with quake3, I have so to restart my X with the > > nvidia drivers it crashed when the screen switched between the console > > to the windows mode. > > > > I try differents things : > > *first to lunch 2 X server in the same times with different config file > > but freeze > > * so I decided to lunch just one : when I lunch X with nv driver, kill > > it, and start X with nvidia it crashes. I have to reboot. I try to start > > X with nvidia module (it works), kill it and start X with nv it workes > > again, kill it, but when I restart X with nvidia module : crash > > > > I have no log of what happen when I crashed because I have to reboot > > manually the computer :( > > > > Anyone has an idea ? It's a bug ?
No, that's expected behaviour. ;) Seriously, a crash is always a bug. > There's two problems here. First, XFree86 and Nvidia use different > kernel modules to get direct hardware access. Loading both kernel > modules at the same time sounds like a good way to crash the kernel. > You will definitely not be able to run both at the same. Second, > they use different and incompatible libGL files. The OpenGL isn't > even compatible when doing a remote display to a different > server (or at least it used to be...) > > To switch between server versions is complicated. You can > make a script to unload the other kernel modules, swap libGL files > (i.e. by redirecting some symlinks), modprobe the new kernel > modules, and start the server with the new driver. This all doesn't apply because the nv driver neither uses any kernel module nor has any 3D acceleration. The nVidia libGL should fall back to GLX with the nv driver. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
