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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] 2.5.x kernel and NVIDIA_nforce spell
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:52:15 -0700 (PDT)


Sergey A. Lipnevich said:
> Eric Sandall wrote:

<snip>

>>check, but my nForce2 machine is working fine (minus the problems I have
>>getting a USB mouse to work in XFree86....grr! Perhaps 4.3.99 will fix
>>it...).
>>
> No cigar here. Nothing works, neither /dev/mouse nor /devices/input/mice
> or mouse0. I have Logitech wireless kb/mouse at home and it's fine by
> using ImPS/2 and /devices/input/mice, but at work it's Microsoft
> wireless kb/mouse, and no luck.

I HAD it working, but then I upgraded to 2.4.21 and no matter what I did,
the NVIDIA_nforce drivers would always report that I had undefined crap
everywhere, so I rebooted to 2.4.20 and it reported the same thing, even
after recompiling (recompiling NVIDIA_nforce, then linux, then
NVIDIA_nforce again just to check). So I got pissed off that such a
simple thing as upgrading my kernel (not even a major version) broke my
networking and sound, so I started over from the 0.6 Beta ISO (same as
final, so why burn a new one?) and now can't figure out how I got it to
even work last time. 'Course, by working I mean every now and then my
mouse would just "stop", usually for just a minute or so, but sometimes I
got tired of waiting and rebooted.

This probably isn't entirely linux's fault as I have problems with USB in
Windows XP[0] as well; after leaving my machine off for about a week (I
got really pissed...what can I say?) I came back and I had no power to my
mouse (note that this is after I had already lost my mouse once in Linux
[didn't try Windows] and had installed another USB port just to check, and
my mouse started working again) and Windows didn't know what a "USB Root
Hub" was (had to take out the nForce2 driver disk (again) and install the
driver (again)).

Lately, I'm not too impressed with NVIDIA, though their graphics cards are
still nice (I have a GeForce FX 5200 w/128MB DDR), but I wish they'd OS
their drivers...

<snip>

Enough of my sob story, how's everyone else doing?

-sandalle

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