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  • From: "Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>
  • To: "Grimoire" <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] nvidia (still)
  • Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:48:19 +0800

I did try it on 2.6 but when that didn't work i have reverted
to 2.4.22-rc1.

Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Scheicher" <worf AT sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
To: "Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] nvidia (still)


> On Saturday 16 August 2003 20:05, Craig Dyke wrote:
> > I have two issue:
> >
> > 1) when casting it fails when patching nv-linux.h for the second time.
>
> So you use a 2.5 or 2.6 kernel, right?
>
> > 2) got past 1 by switching off second patch but can't get X to work.
>
> i am quite sure that the nvidia driver will not work on a 2.5 or 2.6
kernel
> without patching. shouldn't eaven build actually.
>
> > For problem 2 I provide the following info:
> >
> > My problem is that whenever I install the nvidia glx & driver stuff and
> > then fire off X, my scrren goes black and then I get a half white & red
> > cursor square cursor in top left corner and some garbage in bottom
> > right.
>
> on a system where drivers got installed properly, i'd say it's eventually
a
> hardware issue (bad ram or so), but in this case i'm not sure. better sort
> out the first issue.
>
> Worf







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