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Basil Chupin

22 Dec 2003 22 Dec '03

11:53

Guess what? It works. What went wrong? But before installing, get/read the HOW-TO from the Suse ftp site- ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ . Cheers. -- Wagner's music is really not as bad as it sounds.

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David Quental

22 Dec 22 Dec

12:11

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Hello. It works but i get blue characters in another tty's, is this normal??? My video-card is a geforce2 mx 400. David Quental

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Guess what?

It works.

What went wrong?

But before installing, get/read the HOW-TO from the Suse ftp site- ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ .

Cheers.

James Ogley

13:14

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Guess what? It works.

Always does for me :)

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But before installing, get/read the HOW-TO from the Suse ftp site- ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ .

Redux: Stop X (for most people: rcxdm stop) Unload kernel driver (modprobe -r nvidia) install the update (nvidia-installer --update) Start X (for most people: rcxdm start) Sorted The new driver seems like a big improvement over the previous one, glxgears seems a lot faster (I don't remember it's old FPS, but the new one looks higher) and X's memory usage seems A LOT better. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Jan Elders

17:55

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On Monday 22 December 2003 12:53, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Guess what?

It works.

Hey Basil, that's great ! I know how much trouble you had with the 4496 (just as me). But, ........ I'm wondering if I can go to this version too. I'm using a GeForce4 488Go card, which is NOT listed in the APPENDIX A: SUPPORTED NVIDIA GRAPHICS CHIPS of the 5328 readme anymore (it was in the 4496 and 4363 readme's) Since my disastrous experiences with the 4496, I'm a bit shy to 'dive' into this new release without some realistic indication that it should work for me. Any idea how serious the "supported chips' list must be taken ? TIA and HAND, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

Basil Chupin

23 Dec 23 Dec

08:49

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Jan Elders wrote:

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On Monday 22 December 2003 12:53, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Guess what?

It works.

Hey Basil, that's great ! I know how much trouble you had with the 4496 (just as me). But, ........ I'm wondering if I can go to this version too. I'm using a GeForce4 488Go card, which is NOT listed in the APPENDIX A: SUPPORTED NVIDIA GRAPHICS CHIPS of the 5328 readme anymore (it was in the 4496 and 4363 readme's) Since my disastrous experiences with the 4496, I'm a bit shy to 'dive' into this new release without some realistic indication that it should work for me. Any idea how serious the "supported chips' list must be taken ?

"Any ideas?", you ask. YES. The list is not worth a pinch of horse manure as far as I am concerned. The list contains all the cards I have but the driver will not work with 2 of them (I did try and install the driver on the 3rd computer with a MMX400 card -- see my earlier message). I had to re-install 4363 on the other computers so I suggest you stick with it. But, of course, why not try the new one- you might be lucky and get it to work. Only takes less than 10 minutes to install/uninstall the new driver. Cheers. -- Wagner's music is really not as bad as it sounds.

Jan Elders

13:22

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On Tuesday 23 December 2003 09:49, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Jan Elders wrote: <snip>

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But, ........ I'm wondering if I can go to this version too. I'm using a GeForce4 488Go card, which is NOT listed in the APPENDIX A: SUPPORTED NVIDIA GRAPHICS CHIPS of the 5328 readme anymore (it was in the 4496 and 4363 readme's) Since my disastrous experiences with the 4496, I'm a bit shy to 'dive' into this new release without some realistic indication that it should work for me. Any idea how serious the "supported chips' list must be taken ?

"Any ideas?", you ask. YES. The list is not worth a pinch of horse manure as far as I am concerned.

The list contains all the cards I have but the driver will not work with 2 of them (I did try and install the driver on the 3rd computer with a MMX400 card -- see my earlier message).

I had to re-install 4363 on the other computers so I suggest you stick with it. But, of course, why not try the new one- you might be lucky and get it to work. Only takes less than 10 minutes to install/uninstall the new driver.

Pfew ! I counted to 10, then decided to give it a try, and .......YES the 5328 driver works correctly with my GeForce4 488Go. Also the CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6 garbage problem (which I too had with the 4496 driver) has gone away. So, I'm happy for now. I hope others will/can follow. Greetings, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

Basil Chupin

14:59

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Jan Elders wrote:

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On Tuesday 23 December 2003 09:49, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Jan Elders wrote:

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But, ........ I'm wondering if I can go to this version too. I'm using a GeForce4 488Go card, which is NOT listed in the APPENDIX A: SUPPORTED NVIDIA GRAPHICS CHIPS of the 5328 readme anymore (it was in the 4496 and 4363 readme's) Since my disastrous experiences with the 4496, I'm a bit shy to 'dive' into this new release without some realistic indication that it should work for me. Any idea how serious the "supported chips' list must be taken ?

"Any ideas?", you ask. YES. The list is not worth a pinch of horse manure as far as I am concerned.

The list contains all the cards I have but the driver will not work with 2 of them (I did try and install the driver on the 3rd computer with a MMX400 card -- see my earlier message).

I had to re-install 4363 on the other computers so I suggest you stick with it. But, of course, why not try the new one- you might be lucky and get it to work. Only takes less than 10 minutes to install/uninstall the new driver.

Pfew ! I counted to 10, then decided to give it a try, and .......YES the 5328 driver works correctly with my GeForce4 488Go. Also the CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6 garbage problem (which I too had with the 4496 driver) has gone away. So, I'm happy for now. I hope others will/can follow. Greetings,

Well, there you are! Well done. Glad it's working with the 488Go card. This gives hope to others to at least try the new driver - there is nothing to lose. Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Adalberto Castelo

22 Dec 22 Dec

17:57

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My experience here was a little different: the new drivers take glxgears from 757 FPS to, get this: ** 6 FPS **. So, I'm back to using the 4496 version of the drivers. Here's more details: Current config: geforce 2 mx400 1600x1200x24 SuSE 9 stock kernel source installed starting from init 3: # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run -n (-n means not to use a precompiled interface -- I tried both with -n and without: same results) Seems to install fine. The sax2 -m 0=nvidia step from the SuSE howto doesn't seem to do anything interesting (since my XF86config already points to the nvidia module), but I did it anyway. # init 5 It starts fine, with the nvidia splash screen and all. But 3D performance disappears. Please do not tell me I have to switch back to 16bpp, that's not an option, and it works with 4496 anyway. Suggestions? Adalberto On Monday 22 December 2003 06:53, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Guess what?

It works.

What went wrong?

But before installing, get/read the HOW-TO from the Suse ftp site- ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ .

Cheers.

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Gerhard den Hollander

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* Adalberto Castelo (Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:57:33PM -0500)

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My experience here was a little different: the new drivers take glxgears from 757 FPS to, get this: ** 6 FPS **. So, I'm back to using the 4496 version of the drivers.

Hah .. had similar problems. Can you check your syslog and see if you have any kernel OOPS-es that may be related to USB at the same time that NVidia is being insmod-ded ? Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-10.280.1515 ICT manager Direct:+31-10.280.1539 Fugro-Jason Fax :+31-10.280.1511 gdenhollander@Fugro-Jason.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.Fugro-Jason.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. This e-mail shall not be deemed binding unless confirmed in writing. If you have received it by mistake, please let us know by e-mail reply and delete it from your system; you may not copy this message or disclose its contents to anyone. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.

Adalberto Castelo

23 Dec 23 Dec

14:50

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 December 2003 14:20, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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Can you check your syslog and see if you have any kernel OOPS-es that may be related to USB at the same time that NVidia is being insmod-ded ?

Found Oopses, but the kernel trace indicates it's related to reiserfs or lvm. They come in the log right after nvidia 5328 is loaded. Everything is fine with 4496. Adalberto -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBP+hWT96AspoXaofZAQJq8A//Rncgih840ZnFJL2IQeTRfjvL+F8aLB6w GvVILODmWuHrdxMY/FJk6nyA9aFc8S11cMJoEbfxGgrRSRUFjxBac5d7hGag04b3 QpV/sszLWDrYZtNlHXitcjR8UH4d6TRMa9NUzW3D+J5oQpx50aF2ZSXPDZZqzaXU +eyp2idPkaeb/29RdfUEoYKkyZF2VF2RRZhDcFus4J7W9wQcl5OaBE/4ncdYi3IJ /QEZZf4Um5XoUpLD16mq3qb6vkfkRFr04Zo4R+Cl0YB5pZrwYXHlqtoa2MWp1VR/ MpEixtrEPsNrAFpnAp0IzcERt10w5B0Q01ub87WrCfGZh9HF5u5y1oSV6SUOl6y5 4mn/JCzWpLiypjqEsURSY046TWBa4bzY6JH7X9j/Z3Ycu2kYaMCsoKcn8T1pJcck 6q8JLMblcGm34VGP6aaiZTS75EzIQJZY10vmZqwkjRKEGERMjlA7oWxkio6PL1oB iCzzgJtIwqZwfHixUl6yYymB48+ZJvzNVHbAB/R1Tg5+/rP8JmcqUqLOpOc9ovrX bw3FZhGcWEd9OuKxls61eOGn7E00zCjIqgCoux3sfBOfTY0fP9bgNnIl9tesbOIc Lr4/jINAVi3sP0bHooey4RRPoKhbD9X+NoU3MxV4bFbYkxHtWa9sFS4OQmL22wQw VppXK2An010= =9ZkH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Gerhard den Hollander

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* Adalberto Castelo (Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:50:45AM -0500)

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On Monday 22 December 2003 14:20, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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Can you check your syslog and see if you have any kernel OOPS-es that may be related to USB at the same time that NVidia is being insmod-ded ?

Found Oopses, but the kernel trace indicates it's related to reiserfs or lvm. They come in the log right after nvidia 5328 is loaded. Everything is fine with 4496.

This can be fixed by installing the packages from the minion.de site. check the nvnews forum for full details. I had similar oopses, installed the 2.6 patched version (yes, it does work under 2.4). Bascially what you do is: go to http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/ download the pkg0.run file telinit 3 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0.run --extract-only cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0 make Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-10.280.1515 ICT manager Direct:+31-10.280.1539 Fugro-Jason Fax :+31-10.280.1511 gdenhollander@Fugro-Jason.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.Fugro-Jason.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. This e-mail shall not be deemed binding unless confirmed in writing. If you have received it by mistake, please let us know by e-mail reply and delete it from your system; you may not copy this message or disclose its contents to anyone. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.

Basil Chupin

25 Dec 25 Dec

01:42

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Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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* Adalberto Castelo (Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:50:45AM -0500)

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On Monday 22 December 2003 14:20, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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Can you check your syslog and see if you have any kernel OOPS-es that may be related to USB at the same time that NVidia is being insmod-ded ?

Found Oopses, but the kernel trace indicates it's related to reiserfs or lvm. They come in the log right after nvidia 5328 is loaded. Everything is fine with 4496.

This can be fixed by installing the packages from the minion.de site. check the nvnews forum for full details.

I had similar oopses, installed the 2.6 patched version (yes, it does work under 2.4).

Bascially what you do is: go to http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/ download the pkg0.run file telinit 3 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0.run --extract-only cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0 make

I have downloaded the package from the above site (but have not yet tried to install it). While on that site, I noticed that it also had a driver with the number 4620 which does not match any number at the nVidia site. Anyone know what this 4620 is all about? Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Sid Boyce

02:11

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Basil Chupin wrote:

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Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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* Adalberto Castelo (Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:50:45AM -0500)

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On Monday 22 December 2003 14:20, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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Can you check your syslog and see if you have any kernel OOPS-es that may be related to USB at the same time that NVidia is being insmod-ded ?

Found Oopses, but the kernel trace indicates it's related to reiserfs or lvm. They come in the log right after nvidia 5328 is loaded. Everything is fine with 4496.

This can be fixed by installing the packages from the minion.de site. check the nvnews forum for full details.

I had similar oopses, installed the 2.6 patched version (yes, it does work under 2.4).

Bascially what you do is: go to http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/ download the pkg0.run file telinit 3 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0.run --extract-only cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0 make

I have downloaded the package from the above site (but have not yet tried to install it).

While on that site, I noticed that it also had a driver with the number 4620 which does not match any number at the nVidia site.

Anyone know what this 4620 is all about?

Cheers.

At 02:00 GMT this side, I'm too lazy to look, but some of the drivers are for x86_64. Are you willing to fund me an AMD 64 + motherboard and memory for that answer? I haven't tried the driver yet as I want to use it with 2.6.0-mm1 kernel perhaps tomorrow when I've had some sleep and I am not in a coffee stupor, having just waded through an hour and a half of hand patching 2.6.0-mm1 with the laptop patch. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.

Sid Boyce

04:16

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Basil Chupin wrote:

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Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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* Adalberto Castelo (Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:50:45AM -0500)

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On Monday 22 December 2003 14:20, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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Can you check your syslog and see if you have any kernel OOPS-es that may be related to USB at the same time that NVidia is being insmod-ded ?

Found Oopses, but the kernel trace indicates it's related to reiserfs or lvm. They come in the log right after nvidia 5328 is loaded. Everything is fine with 4496.

This can be fixed by installing the packages from the minion.de site. check the nvnews forum for full details.

I had similar oopses, installed the 2.6 patched version (yes, it does work under 2.4).

Bascially what you do is: go to http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/ download the pkg0.run file telinit 3 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0.run --extract-only cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0 make

I have downloaded the package from the above site (but have not yet tried to install it).

While on that site, I noticed that it also had a driver with the number 4620 which does not match any number at the nVidia site.

Anyone know what this 4620 is all about?

Cheers.

At 02:00 GMT this side, I'm too lazy to look, but some of the drivers are for x86_64. Are you willing to fund me an AMD 64 + motherboard and memory for that answer? I haven't tried the driver yet as I want to use it with 2.6.0-mm1 kernel perhaps tomorrow when I've had some sleep and I am not in a coffee stupor, having just waded through an hour and a half of hand patching 2.6.0-mm1 with the laptop patch. Regards Sid. The laptop patch didn't work out, so I built without. On the main box under 2.6.0-mm1 -- init 3 ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run --extract-only cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1/usr Applied the latest NVIDIA kernel patch from www.minion.de cp -dpR X11R6/*, share/*, lib/*, include/* to their respective

Sid Boyce wrote: directories under /usr. ldconfig cd src/nv ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-mm1 /usr/src/linux (rm /usr/src/linux beforehand) make -f Makefile.kbuild install didn't work out so I had to "ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile", then "make install" insmod nvidia (for some reason on this box I have to "insmod /lib/modules/2.6.0-mm1/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko" Switching between X and vt's OK. Rebooted and all is still well. XP2200+/512M/GeForce FX5200. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.

Basil Chupin

28 Dec 28 Dec

13:19

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Sid Boyce wrote:

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Basil Chupin wrote:

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Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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* Adalberto Castelo (Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:50:45AM -0500)

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On Monday 22 December 2003 14:20, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

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Can you check your syslog and see if you have any kernel OOPS-es that may be related to USB at the same time that NVidia is being insmod-ded ?

Found Oopses, but the kernel trace indicates it's related to reiserfs or lvm. They come in the log right after nvidia 5328 is loaded. Everything is fine with 4496.

This can be fixed by installing the packages from the minion.de site. check the nvnews forum for full details.

I had similar oopses, installed the 2.6 patched version (yes, it does work under 2.4).

Bascially what you do is: go to http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/ download the pkg0.run file telinit 3 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0.run --extract-only cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg0 make

I have downloaded the package from the above site (but have not yet tried to install it).

While on that site, I noticed that it also had a driver with the number 4620 which does not match any number at the nVidia site.

Anyone know what this 4620 is all about?

Cheers.

At 02:00 GMT this side, I'm too lazy to look, but some of the drivers are for x86_64. Are you willing to fund me an AMD 64 + motherboard and memory for that answer?

Nope. Get out own AMD64 + motherboard :-) . The first thing I did before asking the Q above is check out the nVidia site and, as I said, there is no mention of #4620 at all for any of the CPU/OS versions. So, the Q stands: what is the #4620 all about?

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I haven't tried the driver yet as I want to use it with 2.6.0-mm1 kernel perhaps tomorrow when I've had some sleep and I am not in a coffee stupor, having just waded through an hour and a half of hand patching 2.6.0-mm1 with the laptop patch.

Stay away from coffee. It can do very strange things to you when consumed in large quantities. I ended up with coffee poisoning, according to my doctor, some years. Couldn't walk without hanging on the walls and generally had much trouble in walking. Doc asked me how much coffee I drank and I told. Stopped drinking coffee and got back to normal. Haven't touched coffee since - only have a cup when we have guests for dinner. Otherwise I only drink green jasmine tea. Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Sid Boyce

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Basil Chupin wrote:

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Sid Boyce wrote:

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So, the Q stands: what is the #4620 all about?

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I haven't tried the driver yet as I want to use it with 2.6.0-mm1 kernel perhaps tomorrow when I've had some sleep and I am not in a coffee stupor, having just waded through an hour and a half of hand patching 2.6.0-mm1 with the laptop patch.

Stay away from coffee. It can do very strange things to you when consumed in large quantities. I ended up with coffee poisoning, according to my doctor, some years. Couldn't walk without hanging on the walls and generally had much trouble in walking. Doc asked me how much coffee I drank and I told. Stopped drinking coffee and got back to normal. Haven't touched coffee since - only have a cup when we have guests for dinner. Otherwise I only drink green jasmine tea.

Cheers.

It's not there now, though I've just downloaded it from http://public.pny.com/quadro/FX3000g/Linux/, it seems to have been a beta driver for IA32 they put out in August, they must have yanked it before announcing it, there was also a 4499 for AMD64 I think that's no longer up on the nvidia.com archive. I pulled down the README for 4499 on 15th. November. Ah well, I'll just have to tap others to see if I can get the AMD64 package for free, and I have my coffee so weak, it takes me a week to consume 5 heaped teaspoons of the instant stuff. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.

Örn Hansen

22 Dec 22 Dec

21:42

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On Monday 22 December 2003 18:57, Adalberto Castelo wrote:

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# init 5 It starts fine, with the nvidia splash screen and all. But 3D performance disappears.

Please do not tell me I have to switch back to 16bpp, that's not an option, and it works with 4496 anyway.

Suggestions?

Yep, same option I had on my ti 4200 card ... go back to 4496. Unfortunately, I lose my console on that one but AGP works.

Fred Miller

23 Dec 23 Dec

05:30

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On Monday 22 December 2003 6:53 am, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Guess what?

It works.

What went wrong?

But before installing, get/read the HOW-TO from the Suse ftp site- ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ .

I had to use the sax2 -m 0=nvidia command for the setup to work correctly. Some may not have to. Also, there probably will be an error message on 3D, telling you it's not available. Forget it - you'll have 3D. Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."

Basil Chupin

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Basil Chupin wrote:

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Guess what?

It works.

What went wrong?

But before installing, get/read the HOW-TO from the Suse ftp site- ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ .

"SNAFU", as the Actress said to the Bishop. Those lovely people at nVidia are nothing but consistent. I have to take most of my above comment back. The new driver only works with my purchased-only-last-week Geforce FX5200 card but will not co-operate with the Geforce4 MMX440 card on the other computer. With the MX440 I get the same results as with the 4496 driver, namely garbage when using CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6, and garbage when shutting down. I have a MMX400 on the 3rd computer but I won't even bother to try and install it there as it would be just a waste of my time. Cheers. -- Wagner's music is really not as bad as it sounds.

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