-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 krjw wrote:
| Ack. Makes you wish you could poke around in the source, eh? Well, not really, I wouldn't understand much of it. Other more knowledgeable people could, though. | Anyway, | does this only occur when you attempt to do 3D things? Or does it | happen in 2D land as well? I've been using the nvidia binary drivers | with the geforce3 for eons with no persistant life-threatening problems. even with 2D only. | The only real issue I've seen thus far is related to agpgart but this | probably has nothing to do with your problem. well, it could be, since the "nv" driver doesn't use agp | | At first I didn't relate this to the nvidia driver, but I've looked at | | the kernel mailing list and everybody says that the problem is NVIDIA | | related (I tried to contact nvidia but it seems that | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] is redirected to /dev/null). | | /dev/null eh? Hmm maybe so today but usually they respond within a day | or two. Most often they don't bother to read your message in entirety | but they do (try to) respond. I didn't get anything, not even an automated reply. [...] | Perhaps Mandrake tweaked the kernel a bit and broke something such that | it doesn't get along with the nvidia code (or vice versa)? Did you try | or consider trying vanilla kernel source, ie, from kernel.org? No, I though that Mandrake patched kernel was fine (probably "better than the real thing" ;-), since nvidia provides a package for it. | | | The kernel is booted with the "mem=nopentium" parameter to workaround | | the known athlon bug (or linux bug wrt athlon) with agp. | | XFree is 4.2.0, straight from Mandrake RPMS. | | Call me ignorant but what exactly is the nopentium option for? I don't remember where I got it originally, but you can find a description of the problem here: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20020123-amd-news.html Bye - -- Luca Olivetti Note.- This message reached you today, it may not tomorrow if you are using MAPS services. They arbitrarily include in their lists IP addresses not related in any way to spam, and in so doing are disrupting Internet connectivity. Please stop supporting them. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/21/1944247 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9PBfpCQPXTRx9NmQRArgHAJ4tb+pmMMvTinA7gnSlabPPuMAQFwCeOCOW R8kI5/ir6XyFk2mn1fW4ESY= =PTnm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
